Authored by Kenny Stancil via CommonDreams.org,
As of the last week of November, Covid-19 has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people who live and work in long-term care facilities in the United States, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s latest analysis of state-reported data.
The following chart depicts the growth in Covid-19 deaths among nursing home residents and staff in the U.S. since April. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), 40% of the nation’s Covid-19 deaths have occurred in long-term care facilities.
“While early action to prevent the spread of coronavirus in long-term care facilities led to strict protocols related to testing, personal protective equipment, and visitor restrictions,” KFF pointed out that “several of these measures have been reversed in recent months, and some long-term care facilities continue to report shortages of PPE and staff.”
According to physician and public health expert Michael Barnett, 7.7% of the nation’s nursing home residents, or one in 13, have now died as a result of Covid-19. “Things have never really gotten better,” he tweeted. “Testing is a struggle, PPE and staff are daily challenges.”
Soon after reaching the “bleak milestone” of 100,000 pandemic deaths in long-term care facilities, which happened on Tuesday, the U.S. on Thursday experienced a new record-high number of coronavirus-related hospitalizations, as Common Dreams reported earlier Friday.
Millions of Americans have passed through airports in the past week, despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation against traveling for Thanksgiving. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, does not expect conditions to improve by Christmas and the New Year.
As KFF explained, the predicted “surge in cases after holiday gatherings and increased time indoors due to winter weather… will have ripple effects on hospitals and nursing homes, given the close relationship between community spread and cases in congregate care settings.”
The country’s Covid-19 death toll surpassed 264,000 on Friday. Meanwhile, Thanksgiving marked the 24th consecutive day of more than 100,000 new daily cases in the U.S.
Given the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on the high-risk populations who live and work in long-term care facilities, even more nursing home residents, employees, and their families are expected to be negatively affected by coronavirus as long as the number of infections continues to grow.
“Post-Thanksgiving surges in cases are unlikely to spare this community and will likely lead to an even higher death toll in long-term care facilities,” KFF said, “raising questions about whether nursing homes and other facilities are able to protect their residents and, if not, what actions can be taken to mitigate the threat posed by the virus.”
A very grim milestone: the US has reached 100,000 deaths in nursing homes from COVID-19
That is **7.7%** of all nursing home residents nationally. 1 in 13
Things have never really gotten better. Testing is a struggle, PPE and staff are daily challenges.https://t.co/GicdEAf5lA pic.twitter.com/8M3fpzsEiq
— Michael L. Barnett (@ml_barnett) November 25, 2020
As the New York Times reported in June, when the Covid-19 death toll in long-term care facilities was just over 50,000, some critics have argued that the profit-driven nature of the private nursing home industry is the underlying problem, since treating elder care as a commodity rather than a public good can incentivize cost-cutting or money-making measures that put people in harm’s way.
An investigation of long-term care facilities in Connecticut, the results of which were published in August, lent credence to that hypothesis. According to the study, “For-profit nursing homes had about 60% more cases and deaths per licensed bed than nonprofit ones,” while “larger facilities were hit harder than smaller ones, and… homes serving as part of a chain had worse outcomes,” as Reuters reported at the time.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) noted this week that he and Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) “have a bill to help nursing homes protect their residents and workers from Covid-19.” According to Whitehouse, “It’s time to pass it.”
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More bullshit propaganda. Why is this on TBP????
It’s all going according to plan:
“Ezekiel Emanuel, a doctor and medical ethicist argues life after 75 is not worth living”
Rahm’s brother is a medical ethicist? A Jewish physician with the ethics of Dr Mengele perhaps.
But do not fret — he shall be named to The Harris Administration’s cabinet or a special CoVid Commissar position so that he may lavish his tender mercies* on all the poor goyim and Chosen Ones also who are wasting precious resources.
*Youth-in-Asia.
Spot on-he’s been named for a position on some Biden ‘health’ commission-God help us.
I personally appreciate TBP for letting us see all the bullshit propaganda we want to see just to make sure we know it is out there.
And, remember, one person’s bullshit propaganda is another person’s God’s Honest Truth.
“It’s the commentary that makes the difference.”
– Anonymous (Shitposter)
C’mon! How can any member of the Commentariat not agree with this most complimentary and true statement? Sheesh.
Winny, please provide the faithful with the url of your blog so we can all become equally well informed.
Wait a frigg’in minute…your complaining about recycled misinformation…HHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Get over yourself asshole.
Would be good to know how many die from/with the flu/pneumonia annually?
https://alphanewsmn.com/johns-hopkins-academic-cdc-data-shows-covid-hasnt-increased-us-death-rate/ Yes old folks have died with/from Covid but they would have died anyway. This study is being suppressed has is shows total deaths have not increased in 2020! So the folks who would have died from the flu or underlying comorbidities died with/from COVID….but total deaths have not increased. So the 250,000 so-called COVID deaths are perfectly normal and happen every year and we don’t wear a face diaper, kill the economy, or wreck our electoral system with fraudulent mail-in voting!
My mother was in a care facility for several years before her death. I spent alot of time there and got to know most of the residents and staff. Every year, typically during winter, 3-4 residents would fall ill and pass, usually from pneumonia or respiratory failure. I assume this happens in most care homes
True.. I submitted an article to Jim instead of commenting
The same graph showing almost exactly same decrease in all causes vs increase in covid19 deaths appeared in Ethan Yang piece poster here 11/27.
It doesn’t get much clearer than that.
We added to elderly (nursing home residents) church members to the prayer list this morning.
Both in their 90s, one with long term dementia, the other suffered a debilitating fall.
Both just tested positive.
Both will be listed as covid19 deaths.
No deaths from flu/pneumonia now. Those have been cured by Covid. Miracle, right?
An unintended consequence of Affordable Health Care.
90% of the nursing home deaths happened in New York as a result of Cuomo’s ruling that infected patients be tossed in with the nursing home population. You can put Cuomo up there with the rest of the mass murders. Wonder if they give an Emmy for most deaths due to governor edicts?
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/how-cdc-estimates.htm
How many nursing home residents died in 2019?
If you compare the death statistics year to year, there is very little difference, regardless of age.
The sad part was that the people in the nursing homes and such were isolated from family during a period in their lives when human comfort is most needed. Would be interesting to know how many passed away due to loneliness and despair, many not knowing what was going on.
Killed by the one’s own government in the most cruel of ways, a lack of love. I honestly hope to see total destruction, a risk am willing to take because what is happening now is satanic.
Meanwhile masks and gloves are being WASTED on the young and healthy who should simply be getting exposed to this virus that is NEVER GOING AWAY.
I doubt any Covid number from the gov. Hospitals have incentive to mark every death as a Covid-19. And the testing is waaaaay the fuck off because they’re not cycling the tests properly, which results in false positives galore.
The result is these bureaucrats are making lifestyle choices for their sheeple based on garbage information. The actual death rate unadjusted for demo is about a quarter of a percent. So overall your chance of survival with Covid-19 is 99.75.
And while all this attention goes to Covid 19, the CDC still “estimates” the annual flu deaths! Straight outta the horse’s mouth:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/how-cdc-estimates.htm