Nothing official, but I can tell you that 3 different nursing homes has issues, and all 3 had previous outbreaks. Two were small clusters over the last couple of months, but those burned out very quickly. The third had a full blown outbreak, as bad as any of the previous ones, but much shorter in duration. EMS calls there were sky high for about 2-3 weeks, and then quickly stopped. This is where I suspect most of the deaths of people 70+ came from.FlyRod said:
Any data on whether recent deaths among the elderly occurred in nursing homes (as was the case earlier in the pandemic?)
Curious if after nearly two years of this we are still failing the most vulnerable. I'm hoping not.
I was talking with a nurse who has worked with coronavirus patients in the past and during the conversation I bought up the one nursing home with a major outbreak. As she put it, since the shots do not prevent infection nor prevent transmission, it is almost impossible to keep it out of a contained environment like a nursing home. Add the fact that most people in there are not remotely healthy, and even the best vaccines often do not provide as much protection for the elderly due to their weaker immune systems, it is still a prime target for the virus to run amok.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill