Coronavirus fatalities in long-term care facilities have surpassed a grim threshold in much of the country, accounting for at least a third of the deaths in 26 states and more than half in 14 of those.
"It was certainly expected that nursing homes would be hit but it was not inevitable that they'd be hit this hard," Richard Mollot, executive director of New York-based Long Term Care Community Coalition, told NPR."It was certainly expected that nursing homes would be hit but it was not inevitable that they'd be hit this hard," Richard Mollot, executive director of New York-based Long Term Care Community Coalition, told NPR.
She expects that skilled nursing facilities will continue to be hot spots for the spread of the virus now that 18 states that have so far declined to publicly report data, hand information over to the CDC. "It is not necessarily correlated to the challenges that states might be facing in long-term care facilities," Chidambaram said. One theory is that those residences are simply conducting more thorough testing than is being done among the general public.
Officials with the American Health Care Association, the trade organization for most nursing homes, has called the outbreak"devastating." The group urged the federal government to prioritize testing to all residents and caregivers of nursing homes and assisted living communities, regardless of symptoms.
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