Posted on 04/14/2020 5:37:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The research places some doubt on the value of daily government figures which cover only deaths of hospital patients.
Around half of deaths from COVID-19 are happening in care homes, according to data from some European countries.
Figures from five European countries suggest that care home residents have accounted for between 42% and 57% of all deaths related to COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.
The figures are contained in a report by academics at the London School of Economics, which focuses on Italy, Spain, France, Ireland and Belgium.
This would suggest that the daily figures announced by the UK government are vastly under-estimated, as they only include deaths in hospitals where a patient had tested positive for the virus.
Almost two million people worldwide have been infected with the disease and around 120,000 have died after testing positive for it, according to data from US university Johns Hopkins.
On Monday, England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said 13.5% of the UK's care homes had at least one resident with a confirmed case of coronavirus, up from 9% the previous week.
But the figures from Europe, taken between 6 and 11 April, suggest a higher rate of infection and fatality from the disease.
In Spain, figures from media reports showed 57% of all COVID-19 deaths could be in care homes, while official figures in Ireland showed the rate there to be around 54%.
In Belgium, official data showed a rate of 42% and in France the figure was 45%. In Italy, extrapolation of an official survey showed around 53% of COVID-19 deaths were in care homes.
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Now FINALLY an important piece of data!
Extreme quarantine measures against any sort of care facility for the elderly ARE WARRANTED!
Now, leave the rest of us the hell alone.
How is COVID-19 getting into “care homes?”
There’s an assisted living facility about a five minute walk from my home that has had over a dozen die from COVID-19 and several dozen are suffering from it. I know of no-one in the neighborhood around the facility who has even been diagnosed with COVID-19. How did it get into the facility?
It’s like someone has been deliberately infecting residents in nursing home and assisted living facilities (”care homes”).
Of the 149 deaths in Virginia, 42 of them are in one nursing home.
Two things I will never do:
Take a cruise
Go into a care home.
Workers. One of our local facilities was infected by a new resident. Out of our county's 35 cases, a dozen cases are tied to an outbreak at Social Services. One of their jobs is to take care of the elderly.
“Go into a care home.”
It may not be a decision you make
Of the total population the percentage of people who are in elder care homes is very small.
When 50% of the total fatalities are in elder care homes, the problem is obvious.
Our first outbreak in the USA was at an elder care home in Seattle.
A good friend’s mother is in a nursing home. She is not allowed to visit her 94 yo mom. She told me that the elderly are kept in their rooms isolated for over 22 hours a day. They are allowed lunch in the main hall but only in shifts and then they are separated each to a table. The rocking chairs in the outside gated areas were taken away so they are not allowed to get fresh air and sunshine and the pleasure of rocking on a porch with a spring breeze to enjoy. I would call it solitary confinement and elder abuse. Perhaps the numbers are so high because the people that work there are bringing in the virus and with depression being rampant in situations where there is little to enjoy in life and isolated with their fears and no one to talk to they have given up. If someone has a form of dementia it must be even more devastating. Just my thoughts.
“””How is COVID-19 getting into “care homes?””””
Elder care homes are like cruise ships. Gigantic petri dishes.
The people in elder care homes have weak immune systems and many underlying conditions that allow the covid virus to flourish.
All it seems to take is to have one caregiver without symptoms to spread the virus.
Hubby was sent to a nursing home for physical therapy after the hip break for almost 3 weeks.
The people who “cared for him” didn’t speak much English and dressed like it was Jamaica North.
The place, alleged to be a “good” nursing home was a horror show to me.
He had to sit in his room and listen to a man dying across the hall, with not much care from the staff.
[same man who stood in the hall outside his door and screamed all night for weeks]
I had to break bad and threaten to call the “elder abuse” and nursing home complaint hotlines they had posted in the hall [gone soon after] before they would get off their asses and give him more than 3 small cups of water a day, with him on heavy diuretics.
Prior to that, I had to pin the “head nurse” against a wall and intimidate her just to get her to run the cardiac tests his doctor ordered him to have immediately...with 12 days passed by.
I hope to God they’re not all like that but I fear that many of them are.
After 3 weeks of seeing what when on there every day, I would not be surprised by anything.
The employees. I don't know for sure of course, but the workers in my mothers facility were virtually all "immigrants". My assumption was they were generally low-pay Section 8 folks.
Assisted living is pricey and everyone has their own apartment,nursing homes and rehabs are a completely different things.No comparison.
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Yes, this mixing of elder care and walk-in procedures doesn’t seem wise, but as Big Medicine takes everything over, they consolidate as much as possible.
He has Blue Cross and Medicare and was doing his PT in the hospital after the surgery but then BC “ran out” and Medicare sent him to the nursing home.
Had no choice.
Then, after 3 weeks, despite being nowhere ready, medicare threw him out of the nursing home.
He was given a few weeks of in-home PT and then they ended that, too.
Basically had to try to literally walk it off, himself.
Unknown to his ‘care givers’ I smuggled in a huge bottle of Ester-C Immune Support and had him taking double doses the whole time.
I hear you. His treatment is not based at all on need, but on the rules of the payer. Pitiful. I wish you well.
Hubby had his own room and several Darkling Beetles that roamed therein.
He fed them crackers and capfuls of water.
We hid the beetles when the staff came ‘round.
The weak and infirm - I’ve been pointing that out for a week or two now ...
Thank you.
It was the summer from Hell.
July to September.
Always praying it’s never repeated.
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