Paramedics from the San Antonio Fire Department were setting up swabbing stations in a suburban nursing home's parking lot. They were part of the massive state intervention to stop the spread of infections in nursing homes.Paramedics from the San Antonio Fire Department were setting up swabbing stations in a suburban nursing home's parking lot. They were part of the massive state intervention to stop the spread of infections in nursing homes.
"Right now we're focused on licensed nursing facilities. We've seen extremely high mortality rates and that's a very vulnerable population," said Eric Epley, executive director of Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council, who is coordinating the statewide paramedic teams. A swabbing team enters a San Antonio nursing home to test residents for coronavirus. In Texas, 47% of the state's nearly 1,900 COVID-19 deaths have been tied to skilled nursing and assisted-living facilities.A swabbing team enters a San Antonio nursing home to test residents for coronavirus. In Texas, 47% of the state's nearly 1,900 COVID-19 deaths have been tied to skilled nursing and assisted-living facilities.
"And they're moving room to room to room with close patient contact," Dinnin continued."Certainly, if they're not wearing any mask at all to protect others from them there's a good chance they're shedding the virus and they're exposing those high-risk patients to the virus."His chief of operations, Todd Gates, has been working inside nursing home hot zones in Texas for weeks.
The nursing home industry has generally blamed its coronavirus crisis on the early scarcity of masks and other protective equipment, and the lack of testing. Moreover, they say, aged residents are especially vulnerable, and no one saw this virulent disease coming."I think there's always room to look at infection control protocols and how do we improve the process," said Kevin Warren, president of the Texas Health Care Association.
San Antonio paramedics don protective equipment in preparation to enter a nursing home and test residents and staff for coronavirus.San Antonio paramedics don protective equipment in preparation to enter a nursing home and test residents and staff for coronavirus."Without a doubt," she said,"nursing homes could have been better prepared for this."
How does the Texas death-rate compare to NY & NJ nursing-homes? Dr Robin Armstrong kept deaths down to almost naught using Zelenko Protocol. But NPR touted made-to-fail LancetGate & RecoveryGate 'trials' creating HCQ panic & FDA-made shortage. If deaths rise, blame yourself!
You should look into HEB grocery store as a source of outbreaks too.They are telling their employees not to disclose when they test positive (& there have been a quite a few). They do not require masks in their stores to protect employees and customers. They are Irresponsible
Quebec Canada brought in the military to take care of their residents. They were horrified by the living conditions!
“Skilled”...
Higher in NJ I think.
You mean they haven’t been able to just shoot the Coronavirus? Isn’t that how you deal with any problem? May a they could try giving it a tax cut?
d e a t h t r a p s they're funnels for the expendables no longer useful to society. they may have advocates who care a great deal about them, but when even those advocates are shut out and the only ones around are too exhausted to take all the precautions,... yeah
1/ Where's your typical twitter 2nd clause pivot? You know lightening the bad news and worsening the good news. It's right there in the headline, why not in your tweet? Would you leave NY hanging like that? For that matter how is NY doing.
Has NO ONE EVER been to/spent ANY REAL time in a nursing home &/or assisted living facility? Well, YOU SHOULD. It/They are AWFUL/HORRIBLE places. Like it or NOT, I DON'T care, MOST [NOT ALL] people who work in nursing homes SHOULD NOT BE 'working' in nursing homes. EVER. PERIOD.
That is because we have stripped labor rights in this nation to the point that those who legally should not work while sick are often forced to. Everyone keeps ignoring food handlers.
On LOOTING in 2020! WHO TAUGHT us LOOTING? Perhaps it was the KKK-type folks, who LOOTED Black communities during “RED SUMMER” of 1919! And Tulsa Oklahoma in 1921! And on and on for DECADES!
.DanPatrick, how's the economy coming along?
'SKILLED'.
Covid 322
DanPatrick Lt. Dan .... someone talked you out of having Grandma take one for the team?
Isn't this something that should've been done from day one? You would think there would be hundreds if not thousands of these teams out by now. Why did they wait this long? And what good is one team of six in a country with 350 million people? Bull shit.
I wonder how many of those elderly people voted republican/conservative over their life span. Don't think i'll ever not be deeply concerned with how fucked up america is.
Something the Trump administration should have been doing in February
But please, all 18yr olds stay indoors with a 0.0% death rate.
Would be interesting to know if nursing home death rates increased since covid. Seems their numbers could be used to inflate covids threat. After all nursing homes have hight death rates normally right?
GregAbbott_TX DanPatrick SenTedCruz JohnCornyn 'cutting edge' stuff out of Texas ...... Anyone not living under a rock has known since March 1 ... based on Life Care Center in Kirkland WA that these facilites were at risk ..... 3.5 months too late in Texas..
Strike force?
GovAbbott I think it’s about time all the republican governors who clamored for a reopen, speak truth to realDonaldTrump that it doesn’t appear to be going well, and he better formulate a plan. Rather than acting like this doesn’t exist.
'Now, Texas is sending out a strike force to assess problems at nursing homes and to test residents.' Too little, too late, for too many.
They are just now getting around to that?
Obviously. The elderly and immune compromised are the ones that are at risk
Extremely underpaid staff already stressed out during a non pandemic. Daily firings. I’ve seen this firsthand. How should they be able to handle one?
COVID-19 Recovery is long, and from what I have been reading, it can cause long term damage to many organs. Death is not the only reason to stop the spread.
More and more, my resolution to never work in a SNF looks like a good one
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