tl;dr nursing homes need special care during this event and it has been shown that doing so does reduce infection rates if not deaths As to present numbers...

tl;dr nursing homes need special care during this event and it has been shown that doing so does reduce infection rates if not deaths As to present numbers... Well we stopped forcing nursing homes from accepting sick people during the event and not exposing those most at risk does tend to result in fewer deaths. A lot of deaths could have been avoided if we went out of way to not expose those most at risk but some states actually did the exact opposite.