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Number of nursing homes in the US with publicly reported cases of the coronavirus soars

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    ohyran
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    This is something that have been debated fairly heavily here - since a lot of countries doesn't count deaths of Corona in elderly homes towards the total tally (instead see it as "natural causes",...

    This is something that have been debated fairly heavily here - since a lot of countries doesn't count deaths of Corona in elderly homes towards the total tally (instead see it as "natural causes", which I mean it kinda is, unless the patient dies in a hospital) the statistics are tricky AF to compare between different regions.

    The UK just started counting them causing a fairly massive bump in numbers.

    The issue here is that homes for the elderly need staff, there is no good way to use social distancing perfectly in them and since you can be totally symptom free and still infect people, the second it sets root in those places the death numbers climb.

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    1. DanBC
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      The UK is still only counting deaths of people who were confirmed to be covid-19 positive. The problem is that we just don't test many patients -it doesn't make any difference to their treatment-...

      The UK is still only counting deaths of people who were confirmed to be covid-19 positive. The problem is that we just don't test many patients -it doesn't make any difference to their treatment- so we're still missing lots of deaths.

      The true figure is about 48000 deaths if you use a conservative estimate.

      Most places see about 40% to 60% of the total deaths happening in care homes, and most places aren't reporting these deaths in their figures.

      https://www.ft.com/content/67e6a4ee-3d05-43bc-ba03-e239799fa6ab

      https://twitter.com/ChrisGiles_/status/1256228396708872192?s=20

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  2. moocow1452
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    It got into my Gran's home despite them being on lockdown and while I haven't been keeping up with it, I have to imagine everyone there has gotten it by now. I thought it was just their house...

    It got into my Gran's home despite them being on lockdown and while I haven't been keeping up with it, I have to imagine everyone there has gotten it by now. I thought it was just their house being negligent, (they sent us a letter someone reported positive on the 8th, but it never came up when we pulled her out on the 13th) but this adds perspective.

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  3. skybrian
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    From the article:

    From the article:

    In five states — Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Georgia and New Jersey — the virus has struck a majority of nursing homes, the data shows. In New Jersey, second only to New York in total number of confirmed coronavirus cases, health officials have reported infections at 80 percent of the state’s homes.

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