Faced with 20,000 dead, care homes seek shield from lawsuits
Nowhere have the industry’s efforts played out more starkly than in New York, which has a fifth of the nation’s known nursing home and long-term care deaths and has had at least seven facilities with outbreaks of 40 deaths or more, including one home in Manhattan that reported 98.
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...20,000 deaths in nursing homes. I read this morning that we have had 68,000 deaths which puts the number of deaths in nursing homes at 34% of the total if my arifmatic isn't wrong. These stats should tell us that elderly people with underlying conditions are the most susceptible to this illness. Further it should be obvious that the disease isn't being carried in by visitors, but rather by the staff of the nursing homes.
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