Tranny-in-Charge: "they had to die.
they were Republicans on average.
but i got my mother out."
Posted on 06/21/2020 8:57:06 PM PDT by bitt
Tranny-in-Charge: "they had to die.
they were Republicans on average.
but i got my mother out."
Likely more than that. At one point NYS was counting nursing home patients who acquired WuFlu at their facilities but died in the hospital as hospital deaths.
This number is way too low. It’s probably more like 50%.
Right now this morning in NC it’s 56% in nursing homes, 9% in residential care facilities and 2% in correctional facilities.
Sorry
New York ("New York Is #1 for Covid-19!") which skews the the national statistics claims about 14.7% of state deaths in nursing homes and it's just not possible that it's that low.
It's much higher in the surrounding states - 67.9% in Pennsylvania, 49.7% in New Jersey, and 50.8% in Connecticut. Cuomo must be lying, the NY state health department must be epically incompetent, or both. I have less confidence in NY Covid-1 statistics than in Chinese statistics.
Didn’t I read several weeks ago that deaths in nursing and assisted living homes accounted for more than 40% of nationwide total??
Certainly, any illness is harder on the elderly and leads to more deaths but the poor care they receive in many of these facilities could have brought on more deaths. Too many elderly are left unattended for too long or their symptoms are ignored until too late.
You’re playing games when people are dying. That’s sick. Let me know when your loved one dies so we can joke around.
Is the rate of comorbidity factors, like heart disease, higher in nursing homes than the general population of nursing home ages.
Not really. The general rate of heart disease in nursing home residents is about 30%.
In the general population, for the age group of 60-79, the rate for men is about 19% and about 10% for women. In the 80+ age group the rates for men are about 32% and for women about 19%.
It instead seems that in those age groups the folks in nursing homes with heart disease are maybe generally getting a lower standard of care than those in the same age groups with heart disease that do not reside in a nursing home.
I would imagine that holds true globally, and is reflected in similarly higher rates of deaths in nursing homes than the general population.
One sort of study that ought to be made is comparison of elderly who obtained the virus who had been cared for at home verses those cared for in nursing homes. I am not saying that home care would always be better, but curiosity has me wondering how much difference there is, in quality of care. For instance, would a cared-for-at-home person get sent to the hospital when things turned severe, sooner than a nursing home patient?
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