Posted on 04/28/2020 10:30:55 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...Including nursing home deaths in overall COVID-19 data can paint a misleading picture of coronavirus risk if those figures are extrapolated and applied to the larger society. For example, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital recently conducted antibody tests on 200 random members of the general public in Chelsea, Massachusetts. They found 32 percent of those tested had antibodies, which suggested that about 12,800 people in the city had been infected, of which 41 died, an infection fatality rate of about 0.3 percent. Yet of those 41 victims, 27 were residents of just two of the city’s nursing homes — accounting for approximately two-thirds of the city’s coronavirus-related deaths. Whatever the actual infection fatality rate turns out to be in the end (the study’s precise findings are subject to caveats), including nursing-home deaths in the overall assessment inflates the perceived risk of the virus to the public, including to the non-nursing-home elderly, and hinders our evaluation of the benefits and costs of policy interventions. The overrepresentation of nursing-home residents among Covid-19 victims might also impede our ability to assess the effects of general population lockdowns, as huge numbers of nursing-home deaths in many states could swamp any marginal benefit from restrictions on the general public...
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Sadly, many of the patients who died were there for therapy, after knee or hip surgery, something routine. They never made it home.
The cost to care for these elderly residents is big $$$
Kill them off with the CommieVirus and you can save a mint.
It’s obviously the plan
demonicRATS favorite doctor, Dr. Ezekian approves. Most of those people are past their expiration date of 75 years.
Source?
Massachusetts dedicated specialized facilities especially for elderly Covid patients to recover so I think it’s mostly a case of a slow start in testing which allowed it to spread in select locations. The National Guard now does testing throughout Mass nursing homes and prisons.
There is such a thing as being in a nursing home recovering from - not waiting to die from - some malady.My brother, for one. Lived probably ten years after a nursing home stay. But on his best adult day, he couldn’t possibly have survived Covid 19. Not a chance.
Nothing you do for the nursing homes is going to matter if the IQ 50 retards like Cuomo keep planting COVID spreaders in them.
The senior care biz is a tightrope. We have a close friend who has been an administrator of care centers and hospice for decades.
The care center is always concerned with census. That is, residents in the building. It is a revolving door, as people enter in a wheelchair and exit toes up. The care center doesn’t get paid for empty rooms, and a rash of deaths like the virus can sink the facility.
Damn. This is the excerpt I meant to post:
“Easing restrictions on the general public not only would reduce the costs of combating the virus’s toll, it might also have important benefits, most especially to vulnerable Americans. The “flattening the curve” strategy itself recognizes that quarantine restrictions mainly will delay but not eliminate the eventual spread of the virus through society. But this grim reality has benefits as well as costs — gradually building immunity among the general population may be the most effective way of protecting the vulnerable. Locking down society for the past month has not prevented nursing-home outbreaks and permanent isolation of nursing home residents from society will be neither feasible nor desirable. But even more important than building general immunity might be building specific immunity among particular low-risk individuals, who potentially could serve as a cohort of people who can safely come and go from nursing homes — including staff members, delivery drivers, and medical professionals — while minimizing the risk of future outbreaks.”
I should not have attempt to post something on my lunch hour.
Those are physical therapy homes. A nursing home is where patients can't do therapy and no place to live.
They were murdered by rat politicians
If this is accurate, if even some were there for what is usally called rehabilitation, it would be most important to know that percentage. It has been my impression that most of the nursing homes where the large number of deaths have occurred are Long Term Care Facilities.
Another statistic that might help determine which guidelines taken to fight the pandemic worked best might be to know how many of the deaths of the elderly were among elderly who were already in the care of Hospice.
I’m aware and was asking to be informed not dispute.
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