A nurse with covid infected the staff and patients at a nursing home in my home town, six patients died. She volunteered for OT at the nursing home, which was where she normally worked, even though she knew she was positive.
Nursing homes were the worst place to be, along with covid wards. I read accounts of people presumed to have covid being put in covid floors and wards. Terrible things were done to our older folks by people who didn’t care and thought they were gods. Some people got their loved ones who hadn’t tested positive for covid out of those places but they had to take draconian action to do it.
Not in my neck of the woods. We fought Covid and beat its ass. It was kicking our ass at first but we turned it around. We had about 650 deaths by the end of wave 1. Most of them were nursing home type patients with extensive comorbidities. We’ll say that was about a year ago exactly. At that time, we had more deaths than any other county in the state. Between the end of wave 1 a year ago and now, we’ve had another 126 deaths because we upped our game. We are seeing more younger people with it now but they’re surviving. they are being put on ventilators and rotoprone beds though. It is my opinion that as more elderly people die and get vaccinated, the virus will “learn” to better utilize younger people as a host and this will become much more common.