An astonishing stat from New York:
New York has slightly over 100,000 nursing home patients—roughly 0.5% of the population of the state. They account for over 20% of New York's coronavirus deaths. Ergo, a nursing home resident (and naturally, since they have major health complications and live in a confined environment) has 40-50 times higher risk of a coronavirus death than a person in the general population.
Coronavirus has likely killed over 5 percent of NY nursing-home residentsBy Aaron Feis
May 10, 2020 | 6:54pm
The coronavirus has likely already killed more than 5 percent of the state’s nursing-home population, according to the latest figures from New York’s Health Department.
As of the start of Sunday, there were 2,598 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the facilities statewide, the DOH said. There also were 2,646 fatal presumed coronavirus cases in New York nursing homes, in which the deceased weren’t officially tested but displayed telltale symptoms of the contagion.
Both figures total 5,244 deaths, or nearly 5.2 percent of the state’s nursing-home population of 101,518.
And that percentage doesn’t even include the nursing-home residents who were transferred to other facilities, such as hospitals, and died from COVID-19. ...
NY Post