Thousands of seniors are still dying of Covid-19. Do we not care anymore?

cnn ^ | 02/08/2024 | Judith Graham, KFF Health News

[ChicagoConservative27]

KFF Health News — The Covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults.

The death toll was shocking, as were reports of chaos in nursing homes and seniors suffering from isolation, depression, untreated illness, and neglect. Around 900,000 older adults have died of Covid-19 to date, accounting for 3 of every 4 Americans who have perished in the pandemic.

But decisive actions that advocates had hoped for haven’t materialized. Today, most people — and government officials — appear to accept Covid as a part of ordinary life. Many seniors at high risk aren’t getting antiviral therapies for Covid, and most older adults in nursing homes aren’t getting updated vaccines. Efforts to strengthen care quality in nursing homes and assisted living centers have stalled amid debate over costs and the availability of staff. And only a small percentage of people are masking or taking other precautions in public despite a new wave of covid, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus infections hospitalizing and killing seniors.

[italianquaker]

The media only care about things like war, death or hobos when republicans are in office

[AndyTheBear]

Thousands of seniors are still dying of Covid-19. Do we not care anymore?

If so, guess the "vaccines" don't work.

[The Duke]

"The Sars Covid virus probably does hit seniors a fair bit harder,..."

My feeble, unvaxxed, 85-year-old mother with COPD caught the dreaded Delta variant a couple of years ago, and was barely affected (a modest headache overnight). I got her on Ivermectin and vitamin D, and within 2 hours of testing positive I got her the antibody injections.

[steve86]

Ok, hang in there.

I’ve been fortunate that — although having had multiple covid episodes — no extended symptoms are present and labs look fine.

[Myrddin]

I have the lab report from 10/30/2021. The blood work was fine. Only the bHCG tumor marker was elevated. Not enough to worry about. The 1/15/2024 test was the first since 2021. I will be following this up until I get a diagnosis and plan to remediate. The reason for the 10/30/2021 doctor visit was for a medical exemption from the mRNA vaxx.