Posted on 04/27/2020 11:02:23 AM PDT by aimhigh
Deaths at nursing homes now account for nearly half of all COVID-19-related fatalities in Connecticut. Newly released statewide numbers show a dire increase in cases and deaths. At least one resident has died in the majority of the state’s nursing homes. And death rates at some facilities are approaching one in four residents.
The state chief medical examiner said last week some nursing homes aren’t reporting deaths. Governor Ned Lamont ordered nursing homes to make daily status reports to the state. The president of the state’s largest nursing home association said facilities have followed all guidance and best practices. At the same time, nursing home workers in Connecticut say they still lack sufficient personal protective equipment.
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it’s true and my aunt passed away under that situation a few days ago.
Same thing true in Iowa too.
Sorry about your Aunt. I have an aunt and uncle who have it bad....they aren’t what I’d consider elderly either....early 60s.
Isn't this all a failure of basic infectious disease control practices, and shouldn't all nursing home aides have been completely familiar with this before they even touched their very first patient?
Oooh, "Dailey status reports". As if that'll stop the deaths.
Blue state governors sit back and read reports whilst senior citizens in nursing homes are being allowed to be exposed and die.
Sad to hear.
It’s a MAJOR failure and the question is how many of these deaths were caused by sending people back to the “nursing home”? Could it be as high as 20%? More?
I think that there are individuals working in the nursing home industry and in state governments who should go to prison over this. (I am not confident that it will happen, though.)
What?
There has been no planing for how nursing homes handle infectious disease?
How long has Fauci been at the NIAID??
We all knew they were at risk, but the amount of Nursing Home carnage, the % of the deaths being there is just now coming out. It does affect overall perspective.
The fools leading our country locked down the healthy and foolishly, perhaps deliberately, failed to protect the vulnerable elderly in nursing homes in other retirement facilities. They are at best despicable and at worst demonic.
My sister helps run a cleaning business in Connecticut and the convalescent home has told them not to come in. She has no idea who is cleaning up the place.
As you might imagine, her perspective on this matter in the middle of nursing homes in Connecticut is far different from mine her in sunny Arizona.
It couldn’t be that too many nursing homes are corner-cutting smelly unsanitary depressing Hells on Earth? Lord please take me before I ever end up in one of those places...
Yes, and the political donations from nursing homes are huge as a result.
I’m sorry for you and will pray for them.
Aides are mostly uneducated, often immigrants, sometimes indifferent to their patients. They are also saddled with too many patients; they are underpaid; frequently they don’t have benefits as they are kept under 32 hours, so they work more than one location.
It’s the nurses who are supposed to supervise the aides and make sure they are following protocols. Nurses also have too many patients and they are afraid to alienate the aides.
Then there was a major shortage of protective equipment.
Like meatpacking, it is a job we have offloaded to immigrants; it is dirty, arduous, and hard on mind and spirit.
Government does a lousy job at just about everything. Regulating and inspecting are no different.
That said, why were so many of these facilities waiting for government, any government, to tell them what to do? Especially when so many knew from long and bitter experience that their safety and needs aren’t a blip on government’s, any government’s, radar screen when the **** hits the fan.
In NYS the minimum wage is a huge problem. It’s hard to hire and keep motivated, productive people when the wage is the same regardless of performance.
Nursing homes and infectious pandemics should never mix.
All these years F'Ouchie has spent at the NI...EIEIO and this thought has never crossed his mind.
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