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OUT OF THE NEWS: WHY COVID KILLS NURSING HOMES RESIDENTS

As we have been reporting since the start of the COVID War, nursing homes in the U.S. and Europe account for, on average, some 50 percent of all COVID-19 deaths.
Not only have there been tens of thousands of deaths at these locations since the start of the virus outbreak, some elder care facilities are now reporting they are understaffed and their workforce is at dangerously low levels.
The Wall Street Journal reported more than 300 U.S. nursing homes have said they have had at least one day where staff levels fell below 40 percent when compared to the same time in 2019.
The report said some of the reasons included sick workers and workers who were forced to self-quarantine because they were exposed to the virus.
David Grabowski, Professor of Healthcare Policy at Harvard Medical School, told the WSJ that when staffing levels get that low, it becomes a risk for the residents. The paper reported there have been 88,000 COVID-related deaths at these facilities, which accounts for about 40 percent of all recorded COVID deaths.
TRENDPOST: Since February, the Trends Journal has been reporting that when the coronavirus first hit the U.S., the first casualties were hundreds of nursing home residents from Washington State.
The current estimate is, at minimum, some 40 percent of virus-related deaths occurred in these long-term facilities. As we reported, nursing homes, however, did not have to report how many of their residents died of the virus until after early May, when the death rate began to subside.
Moreover, we also reported that in New York State, patients who were ill with the virus in nursing homes and then sent to hospitals were not counted as dying in nursing homes.
 We continue to report on who is dying of the virus, why, and where to illustrate the evidence that these extreme, draconian lockdown measures were pointless in stopping the virus, and they have proven deadly to tens of millions who have lost their businesses, jobs, livelihoods… and lives.
We believe the U.S. should have taken steps to protect the country’s most vulnerable while allowing some semblance of normal life to continue for the vast majority of the population.
The CDC reported that 2.1 million people live in these long-term care providers, which include nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult day service centers, home health care, and hospices. That represents 0.6 percent of the U.S. population, according to The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a non-profit think tank. The think tank said 85 percent of COVID-related deaths in countries such as Ireland and Canada occurred in these facilities. Yet, the lockdowns persist.
 

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