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Thus far? Nursing homes have operated as 'places people go to die'. COVID has just made those deaths a little faster. In all seriousness, taking any amount of

• disgruntledphd2 6y ago
  My dad was in a nursing home for a few years, he died just before Covid. I don't dispute the point in general, but it really really matters to the families of these people what happens in nursing homes. Consider: nursing homes have many staff. Most of them are young and badly-paid. In any let it rip scenario, many of these will have Covid, and will bring it into the home. OK, so let's test everyone. Even ignoring the fact that testing is not 100% accurate and takes time (do you test all staff and have them wait for the results), you'll get loads of staff infected, and who do you replace them with? It appears in Sweden that a major carrier of Covid into nursing homes was agency staff (short-term people brought in to cover staff gaps). How do you stop this from happening again? Full disclosure: my mother, father-in-law and mother-in-law are all over 70 with a consequent higher risk level, so this is not abstract to me as I'd like them to survive long enough so that my newborn daughter remembers them.