[patriotspride]

Despite the increases in cases, the death rates continue to decline. The MSM is inciting hysteria over FL and TX. But putting it into context, more people have died of COVID in NY nursing homes alone than the total number of deaths from COVID in FL and TX combined.

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As always good stuff. Also saw somewhere that 43 % of the deaths that have occurred are in nursing homes . Not unexpected as that community comes in with pre existing conditions and caregivers coming in could infect someone if not pre screened .

Have relatives in an assisted living facility. They are tested weekly, and we have not been able to face to face visit with them for months now. Managed properly, unlike NYC, that population can be protected...

[bray]

Someone was saying the nursing homes and elderly do not get any exercise so when it attacks the lungs they are too weak to fight it off.

[kabar]

There is an interesting 2010 NIH study that found that 53% of those admitted to nursing homes died during the first six months and 65% within the first year. So I wonder how many of these nursing home/LTC Covid deaths would have occurred regardless. Here is one paragraph from the study I found astounding:

Death has become institutionalized over the last 100 years. Today, 25% of all deaths in the nation occur in nursing homes and the proportion of all deaths that occur in these settings continues to rise. By the year 2020, an estimated 40% of Americans will die in a nursing home.

So 10 years before Covid, 25% of all deaths in America occurred in nursing homes. And with an aging population, I can understand the 40% projection for 2020. Similar percentages happened in Europe as well. But the US has larger populations per nursing home.