[K-Stater]

It was not clear from the study how many of the infections proved fatal, but other studies in the U.S. and Israel have shown that about 40% of patients with the infection die.

If most of the people getting it are elderly in long-term care and nursing homes then how about some statistics on the fatalities among those contracting it who are not 90 years old or on their last leg already.

[Dr. Sheldon Cooper]

If most of the people getting it are elderly in long-term care and nursing homes then how about some statistics on the fatalities among those contracting it who are not 90 years old or on their last leg already.

Because averaging in that data would make for an insufficiently dramatic headline.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Elizabeth Taylor?

[Sioux-san]

Thanks for saying what I am thinking - most people who go to a nursing home for long-term care die in the nursing home. The filthiness of health care workers’ hands, particularly doctors, is the main cause of the spread of disease in health care facilities. Experiments have been run in day care centers and schools where special attention is paid to cleanliness of hands, and ditching the fluorescent lighting for full spectrum “healthy” light bulbs, and VOILA, disease and pestilence decreased. Wow!