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2020-11-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Bleak Milestone': More Than 100,000 Nursing Home Residents and Staff Killed by Pandemic

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Posted by Clem 2020-11-29 11:12|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Though most of them would have died by now of something else anyway...

Posted by Glenmore 2020-11-29 18:25|| 2020-11-29 18:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Like the flu?

Posted by Clem 2020-11-29 18:27|| 2020-11-29 18:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Though most of them would have died by now of something else anyway...
I very much doubt that. Epidemiologists have surely amassed statistics of the death rate over years now for nursing home residents and staff. Those numbers are out there somewhere. We will all die of something some time.
The home where my sister lives has 2 workers staying home after turning + for Covid-19, and at least 3 residents who turned + in the last week and are currently hospitalized. I don't know if that stat includes my sister who is also currently hospitalized with a + Covid test and a urinary tract infection. She doesn't seem to have any symptoms of Covid besides headache, body aches and fatigue. She's not even coughing. The facility has been locked down most of this year.

Posted by Grampaw Phavish2227 2020-11-29 20:30|| 2020-11-29 20:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Assisted living facilities are not required to consistently report on COVID-19 deaths, so this type of statistic is incomplete.

Posted by Grampaw Phavish2227 2020-11-29 20:37|| 2020-11-29 20:37|| Front Page Top

#5 some critics have argued that the profit-driven nature of the private nursing home industry is the underlying problem, since treating elder care as a commodity rather than a public good

That IS the bottom line. Also, I hear that nursing home administrators (who should be punished) refuse to tell relatives of sick residents for fear they will be pulled from the nursing home (see above).

Posted by Clem 2020-11-29 20:44|| 2020-11-29 20:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Waltz for the Edison chair.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-11-29 21:30|| 2020-11-29 21:30|| Front Page Top

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