Posted on 04/11/2020 5:48:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Nearly 2,500 long-term care facilities in 36 states are battling coronavirus cases, according to data gathered by NBC News from state agencies, an explosive increase of 522 percent compared to a federal tally just 10 days ago.
The total dwarfs the last federal estimate on March 30 - based on “informal outreach” to state health departments - that more than 400 nursing homes had at least one case of the virus.
The full scale of the virus’ impact is even greater than NBC News’ tally, as key states including Florida did not provide data, and nursing homes across the United States are still struggling for access to testing.
The toll of these outbreaks is growing. NBC News tallied 2,246 deaths associated with long-term care facilities, based on responses from 24 states. This, too, is an undercount; about half of all states said they could not provide data on nursing home deaths, or declined to do so. Some states said they do not track these deaths at all.
Nursing home residents are among those most likely to die from the coronavirus, given their advanced age and the prevalence of other health conditions. But the federal government does not keep a formal tally of the number of coronavirus deaths in nursing homes or the number of facilities with infections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Experts say more comprehensive data is critical to battling the virus and understanding why it is spreading faster in some nursing homes than others.
“It’s impossible to fight and contain this virus if we don’t know where it’s located,” said David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.
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Fatality rate I stated is (Fatalities) divided by (Number of Confirmed Cases) multiplied by (100). All Texas statistics.
There you go. You cited a “case fatality rate” not the “fatality rate”. Yuuuge difference. It’s not a quibble because the case fatality rate is magnitudes higher then the fatality rate (deaths/infections).
The Chicken Freepers like to apply the case fatality rate to the entire population by calling it the fatality rate and thereby scaring themselves witless. But then running around without a head makes it hard to think clearly.
The Oregon governor refuses to release this nursing home information.
51 in two homes in our towns. Last week. Hardly a peep in the media.
Do you have access to the case rates for populous metro areas, examples: Houston, Dallas/Ft. Worth, St. Antonio, El Paso, etc.?
I find it hard to believe they aren’t being tracked since Brix told everyone to inflate the numbers by attributing every death possible to Covid-19 no matter what the real cause.
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