Ffirefighters wearing protective suits wait outside a nursing home before disinfecting it in efforts to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Barcelona, Spain
Posted on 03/31/2020 10:07:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PARIS - One by one, elderly residents of French nursing homes are going into forced isolation into their rooms. Their caregivers are walling themselves in as well, against both the known and the unknown. They are running out of body bags.
Governments in Europe’s hardest-hit countries - Italy, Spain and France - are not routinely testing for coronavirus among elderly residents who fall ill in nursing homes or even those who eventually die there, including those who suffered from symptoms of the disease.
The three countries together make up around a third of the global pandemic’s confirmed cases, and the lack of testing leaves hundreds, potentially thousands, of victims of the disease uncounted as health authorities try to trace its path, The Associated Press has found.
The heavy dependency upon hospitals to count coronavirus fatalities poses particular problems for evaluating its spread among the oldest citizens. Hospitals are increasingly reluctant to admit elderly coronavirus patients judged to have little chance of successful treatment.
Indications are they have paid a steep toll in anonymity.
A study by Italy’s national health institute used sampling to approach the question of how many elderly in nursing homes died with the virus that causes COVID-19. In the hardest-hit region of Lombardy, half of all residents of nursing homes who died since Feb. 1 either had the virus or its flu-like symptoms, but most only cited flu as tests were not carried out irregularly. About 1 in 10 Italian nursing homes said they struggled to get residents into hospitals, and 1 in 4 had problems properly isolating those who tested positive for the virus.
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Ffirefighters wearing protective suits wait outside a nursing home before disinfecting it in efforts to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Barcelona, Spain
Mediterranean countries. About what you'd expect.
More fearporn from globalist AP.
Headline makes it sound like our nursing homes - looks like some of them socialist-public-service paradises are the biggest problems...
France is a med country ? Who knew !
Do you recall the 2003 Europen heatwave...?
More crap from AP. They really have become just worthless.
A nursing home I know of had 11 deaths in 2017 due to an outbreak of virus causing pneumonia. It got ZERO notice. I guarantee you of the same place has one Corona positive death it will make national news.
I doubt they are uncounted.
More AP MSM sensationalism.
I’ve had to limit my looking at news, FR included, due to the hysterical nonsense.
The only thing society is going to suffer from after all of this, is a panic induced economic contraction that will have a drastic impact on even a tiny village on the globe.
7500 people die every day normally in the USA.... wonder how many borrowed deaths are added to Covid here and elsewhere every day?
“people die every day normally in the USA.... wonder how many borrowed deaths are added to Covid here and elsewhere every day?”
These are good questions.
I’m not sure where current death data can be found to assess how much more is being added by this.
A typical scam involves the selective releasing of data...
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