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[The question about the demographics is suspect until we know if the reason “old folks” succumbed was due to their “comorbidities” which is likely but there is also some element of “infected people were sent back to their bed at the home” which, I suspect, is going to be an effect that is more than trivial. Remember, it appears that a sizable # of the deaths are IN the “homes” in the NYC area where this “return to your old bed” policy was in place.]

This may be a factor in relatively low death rates in the Orient, where nursing homes are not quite as common, because the social norm is for the elderly to live with their children. Apart from the standard of attentiveness and care being presumably higher when your flesh and blood are attending to your basic needs, there’s less of a chance of catching the bug from the random strangers typically not from the apex of society who staff nursing homes.