More than 2,200 have died of coronavirus inside nursing homes, but feds aren’t tracking the numbers.
The report comes as The New York Times on Saturday reported equally disturbing numbers regarding coronavirus deaths at nursing homes in New York and New Jersey.
As of Friday, more than half of New York’s 613 licensed nursing homes had reported coronavirus infections, with 4,630 total positive cases and 1,439 deaths, the Times reported.
In New Jersey, nursing homes had been linked to 252 virus-related deaths, more than 90 of them in the past two days, according to the paper. At least 70 percent of the state’s long care centers have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak.
“The story is not about whether there’s COVID-19 in the nursing homes,” Scott LaRue, chief executive of ArchCare, operator of five nursing homes in New York, told the paper. “The story is, why aren’t they being treated with the same respect and the same resources that everyone else out there is? It’s ridiculous.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nursing-home-deaths-coronavirus
OK
COVID-19 Oklahoma Test Results
Positive (In-State) 1,868
*Total Cumulative Negative Specimens 20,790
*Total Cumulative Number of Specimens to Date 22,511
Total Cumulative Hospitalizations 446
Deaths 94
https://coronavirus.health.ok.gov/
PA
COVID-19 Data for Pennsylvania*
Negative tests 98,498
Positive tests 21,655
Deaths 494
* Map, tables and case counts last updated at 12:00 p.m. on 4/11/2020
Positive Cases by Age Range to Date
Age Range
Percent of Cases
0-4 < 1%
5-12 < 1%
13-18 1%
19-24 7%
25-49 41%
50-64 29%
65+ 21%
Hospitalizations by Age Range to Date
Age Range
Percent of Cases
0-4 < 1%
5-12 < 1%
13-18 < 1%
19-24 1%
25-49 19%
50-64 29%
65+ 51%
https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Cases.aspx
ND
Last updated: 4/10/2020 at 11:10 AM
293 Positive Cases
9787 Negative
10,080 Total Tested
119 Recovered
10 Currently Hospitalized
36 Total Hospitalized
7 Deaths
https://www.health.nd.gov/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/north-dakota-coronavirus-cases
NC
4,312 cases
80 deaths
362 currently hospitialized
Percentage of deaths by race
American Indian Alaskan Native 0%
Asian 1%
Black or African American 39%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 0%
White 59%
Other 0%
https://www.ncdhhs.gov/divisions/public-health/covid19/covid-19-nc-case-count
AZ
3,393 cases with 108 fatalities:
Could part of this be that the personnel in the nursing homes are not the same in training as the personnel in a hospital? Professionals who have learned how to avoid infections are undoubtedly more adept at keep things from spreading. Not saying this IS the reason, but maybe it contributes.