Look at the numbers of people in nursing homes that died from covid before the vaccines. Then, look at the numbers after. As bad as the vaccines might be for other groups, it minimized deaths in nursing homes. At least, it did in our three local nursing homes.
People died in nursing homes because governors forced the homes to accept active Covid cases and then when the residents became ill, they were told to do nothing, not treated, until they needed hospitalization. Any treatment given likely Midazolam and or Remdesivir - both are disastrous and resulted in needless death.
If they had treated Covid like any other illness and allowed physicians to treat patients as they normally do, based on patient medical history, and not required nursing homes to accept actively ill people, and not killed patients with Midazolam and Remdesivir, none of this would look any different from any other year.