‘This virus is so infectious and so insidious — it will make its way into long-term care facilities’
Governors are weighing their options as to when their states should be reopened, but doing so too soon could have a devastating impact on nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, experts say.
States with a higher number of cases will be in especially grave danger, he said. The likelihood of having COVID-19 cases in these centers has less to do with the size or background of the facility, and much more to do with where it’s located. “There is a direct correlation between COVID in the community and the presence of COVID in long-term care facilities,” he said.
Half of the coronavirus deaths in Europe happened in nursing homes, according to the World Health Organization. And at least half of all coronavirus deaths in Canada were also in nursing homes, Reuters reported. “We are failing our parents, our grandparents, our elders — the greatest generation who built this country,” said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “We need to care for them properly.
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