Up to 442,000 people in L.A. County may have already had coronavirus, antibody study estimates
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/up-to-442000-people-in-l-a-county-may-have-already-had-coronavirus-antibody-study-estimates/
by: Nouran Salahieh, Jennifer McGraw
Posted: Apr 20, 2020 / 02:03 PM PDT / Updated: Apr 20, 2020 / 07:18 PM PDT
NURSING HOMES
Nursing homes now have to report coronavirus cases to families and federal government
“nursing homes will have to tell patients and their families within 12 hours of a coronavirus diagnosis and give weekly updates.
“The facilities will also have to provide information on confirmed and suspected cases, hospital admissions and deaths of patients and staff to the CDC, said Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Her agency will also make the data available to the public but has not yet decided how.
“Nursing homes have been ground zero for Covid-19,” said Verma, calling the new reporting requirement “critical” to monitoring the virus’ spread and reopening the country.”
If we can learn from this, nursing homes are generally connected to a hospital or have a preference on where they send residents that get sick. For the proverbial ‘second wave’, What if a liaison or concierge person was assigned to a hospital (country worker maybe) that would be in charge of checking/monitoring these nursing homes for first signs of a problem? And then move to assist them (the biggie) as if they are part of that hospital?
The antibody also picks up other corona viruses. It’s not very precise.