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This is the common theme, in California the number was 50% at one point. Most explanations I’ve seen is the fatality rate increase with age from a small factio
by gpapilion 6y ago
This is the common theme, in California the number was 50% at one point.
Most explanations I’ve seen is the fatality rate increase with age from a small factional percentage to 10% in those in their 70s and 80s.
That combined with the proximity of people at a nursing home make it especially deadly.
- mardifoufs 6y agoNursing homes account for 70% of fatalities here in Quebec! And retirement homes 20%. It's very telling that we shut everything up here, with very intense measures compared to our neighbors, but we just utterly ignored nursing houses. We were giving fines to 13yo kids playing soccer in parks when nursing home patients were still going in and out freely and their caregivers were encouraged not to wear PPE (not that it was available anyways, it was mostly diverted to hospitals...). New york did a similar mistake by forcing nursing homes to accept recovering COVID patients, with disastrous results too.