COVID Nursing Home Deaths
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https://ltccovid.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/JLTC_MN.pdf
COVID-19 case and death rates were strongly related to long-term care setting
In the period January through May 2020, 78% of Minnesota’s 28,523 COVID-19 cases were recorded for individuals younger than age 60. In contrast, 93% of 1,217 deaths were recorded for people 60 or older, and 62% of deaths were of people 80 and older. The prevalence of cases per 1,000 persons in each age group was .51 cases for ages 1-59, .49 cases for age 60 and older, and .98 cases for age 80 and older. Mortality per 1,000 persons was .002 deaths for age 1-59, .009 deaths for age 60 and older, and .34 for age 80 and older 8 . Among nursing facility residents, on the other hand, we estimated a prevalence of 143 cases per 1,000 residents and 28 deaths per 1,000 residents 9 .
Residents in long-term care settings accounted for only 21% of Minnesota’s total COVID-19 cases, yet they experienced 81% of total COVID-19 deaths.
There were striking differences in the distribution of resident cases and deaths by the setting in which people resided (Figure 6). Of Minnesota’s total COVID-19 cases though May 2020, 22,625 (79%) were among people residing in community settings (private residences), while 2,973 (16%) of cases were nursing facility residents or staff, 1,243 (4%) were assisted living residents or staff, and 179 (1%) were memory center residents or staff. In sharp contrast, only 238 (19%) of deaths were among individuals in the community. Among the 913 deaths in long-term care, 615 (56%) were of residents of nursing facilities, 267 (22%) were residents of assisted living facilities, and 31 (3%) were residents of memory centers. 9
The number of COVID-19 cases among facility staff was highly correlated with resident cases in long-term care facilities
One of the major sources of COVID-19 transmission to facility residents is through the facility staff. A large number of cases, both confirmed and suspected, were reported among the staff of LTC facilities from January through May. Of the 1,449 reported staff cases, 942 were in nursing facilities, 444 in assisted living facilities, and 63 in memory centers. From analysis of our data, we found that the number of cases among staff in a facility was highly correlated with cases among its residents: r=.828 for nursing facilities, r= .750 for assisted living facilities, and r=.578 for memory centers.
This is Cuomo-riffic!
From four years ago:
From 3 years ago:
Why was Walz seeking to point the finger at school sports, small business dining and restaurants, and family gatherings as the vectors spreading COVID? Because in November 2020 Minnesota still had a near 70% total average of deaths occurring in nursing homes/long term care (LTC) directly under his direct supervision. King Walz refused to use the convalescent facility purchased for COVID infected seniors still recovering after hospital treatment, and had ordered recovering COVID infected seniors BACK INTO NURSING HOMES. To deflect from the terrible COVID results coming from his neglect in LTC King Walz fingered the unproven spread vectors of children, small business, and family gatherings as the activity shutdowns necessary to protect seniors in LTC and to preserve vital COVID hospital bed capacity. If Governor Elder Killer really wanted to preserve the precious few ICU beds for the COVID sick and to protect LTC workers and seniors from contact with covid, why did he coordinate with fairview to close the 90 covid bed bethesda hospital to start the 2nd lockdown? And then arrange to send the covid infected recovering back into nursing homes instead?
