A resident is removed from the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing, Monday, March 30, 2020, in Gallatin, Tenn. Multiple people tested positive for the coronavirus at the facility Friday. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a statewide "safer-at-home" order on Monday to help stem the state's rapid spread of coronavirus, mandating the closure of all nonessential businesses while urging residents to remain at home whenever possible for the next two weeks.
After an outbreak of 100 infections and four deaths at the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing outside Nashville, Tennessee — where the National Guard was called in to help evacuate the facility — Sumner County Mayor Anthony Holt blamed staff members who came to work despite showing symptoms for COVID-19 and “exposed a lot of patients.”
Some relatives of those at the Sundale nursing home in Morgantown, West Virginia, where 29 residents and staff have tested positive, say more should have been done to keep coronavirus out before the federal restrictions took hold in mid-March. And for the nation’s more than 15,000 such facilities and the 1 million people who live in them, experts say the situation could get worse before it gets better.
New York issued a statewide advisory last week forbidding nursing homes from denying residents admission “solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19,.” California told its nursing homes to make similar preparations. Massachusetts announced plans to designate specific nursing homes as care centers for COVID-19 patients — a move that has set it apart from other states
But the order did not mandate regular testing of staffers, which nursing home providers and advocates say is not possible or practical because of the limited availability of tests and delays in getting results.
Too bad AP can’t or doesn’t want to get into China to investigate the lies coming out of the coronavirus culprits.
As the experts have stated, this is going to be hell on earth. I'm not even talking about the predicted surge, but the aftershock of helplessness in profound inconvenience...
There’s a nursing shortage, so nursing homes depend on independent agency nurses who move from one facility to the next. The system is flawed.
The US is culturally unique in how we handle the elderly population compared to other countries with COVID19 outbreaks. This virus, the lack of PPE, low wages (many workers work 2+ jobs in different facilities) and training for staff will be devastating.
I wonder if we are ever going to know how many people actually died from Covid-19 as opposed to how many people died with Covid-19. It's an important difference.
In South Korea, the biggest clusters came from religious gatherings (a little more than 50% of cases), hospitals, and nursing homes. I anticipate a similar pattern in the US.
This cannot be a surprise.
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