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Nearly 90 percent of the coronavirus deaths in Connecticut last week were nursing home patients
By Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant | May 06, 2020 |
Story continues below advertisementNearly 90% of the COVID-related deaths recorded by the state last week occurred in nursing homes as COVID-19 continues to attack residents of long-term care facilities and the state prepares to partially reopen later this month.
Between April 22 and April 29, the state’s death total rose from 1,544 to 2,089, or 545 new deaths, according to data released by the state Department of Public Health. In that same seven-day period nursing home deaths rose from 768 to 1,249, meaning 481 among the 545 new deaths — about 88% — were nursing home patients.
“This brings tears to everyone’s eyes,” said Yale epidemiologist Dr. Albert Ko, who also is co-chairman of Gov. Ned Lamont’s advisory board to reopen the state.
Ko said the nursing home population is like “princess diamonds” that need to be protected. He said the advisory board has talked about the rising nursing home deaths but is not ready to reveal any recommendations it may have.
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Kimberly Hall North nursing home is one of the hardest hit in the nation. Families want to know how coronavirus turned ‘a whole building into a giant cemetery’ »“We’re really worried about this group and one of the major things we need to do is protect them,” Ko said. “But this virus blows up like wildfire in the facilities and is hard to contain.”
Connecticut is not alone in suffering a high rate of deaths in its nursing homes. Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island have also seen similar increases and on Tuesday New York announced that there had been about 1,700 more deaths in nursing homes than had been previously reported.
Overall about 60% of Connecticut’s COVID-19 deaths have been nursing home patients — similar numbers to Massachusetts and New Jersey. In Rhode Island the death rate is nearly 70%.
DPH spokesman Av Harris said the department is about to ramp up its testing program as supplies have started to arrive and are shipped to nursing homes across the state. It will be a large task, as there are more than 20,000 elderly residents in the state’s 215 nursing homes.
Covid-19 Nursing Home Deaths vs. All Other Deaths
“As far as testing for nursing home residents, DPH has distributed hundreds of new testing kits to nursing homes in Connecticut this week and we expect the capacity for testing of the residents most vulnerable to COVID-19 to greatly expand in the coming weeks,” Harris said.At a press conference Thursday Gov. Lamont said while hospitalizations had gone down for the eighth straight day there were still 89 deaths and the nursing home deaths were “something we have to think about seriously.”
Last week a team from the Connecticut National Guard arrived to assist DPH officials in inspecting all 215 nursing homes in the state to ensure they are following proper infection control procedures, have ample staff and enough PPE for them to wear while caring for COVID-19 patients.
DPH also asked for assistance from the federal Centers for Disease Control.
National Guard and CDC will assist Connecticut with inspection and monitoring of nursing homes as deaths spike during coronavirus pandemic »“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has accompanied DPH staff on more than 47 different nursing home surveys and provided consultation to surveyors and the nursing homes relative to infection control and prevention,” Harris said.
“We are committed to doing everything possible to slow down the spread of this virus in our long-term care facilities and save as many lives as we can,” Harris said.
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“While nursing home cases are somewhat isolated, we still need to remain vigilant to ensure health care workers in those facilities are not resulting in community spread and that strict visitation restrictions continue to limit the spread outside of nursing homes,” McGee said. “Nursing home residents are a large percentage of the deaths in Connecticut but they are not the only source of new cases. New case counts demonstrate that community spread is still taking place.”
Overall, Ko said that death rates are normally a few weeks behind other factors that experts look at in determining the path of a virus.
“In Connecticut we clearly have decreasing transmission rates and we are coming down the curve,” Ko said.
Ko said nursing home deaths are slightly different than people who die in the community in terms of transmitting the virus, since they are mostly in confined areas and not out in the public spreading the disease.
Lamont has said that the state will start reopening on May 20. The plan will start with the opening of offices, retail stores, hair and nail salons, outdoor areas at restaurants and outdoor museums and zoos. Employees who can work from home will still be encouraged to do so.
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14 Comments3 years agoIt is perfectly rational for our SENIORS to be more at risk. Their systems are fragile as are those with compromised health. This was extended to fool us into believing the WHOLE populace was affected the same way. This “pandemic” was a fraud also based on OVER INFLATED DEATH NUMBERS!
You will still see many using these ridiculous over inflated numbers to justify their inflated egos! We need to OPEN THE COUNTRY UP and stop piling on our debt! Barr must step in and stop this tyranny. More people have died of the flus over the years than this fake “pandemic”.
Those who are vulnerable know who they are and will need to be careful as they would with any other virus. To hold the entire country hostage to this is EVIL. SUICIDES IF THEY AREN’T ALREADY will out number “pandemic” deaths. Domestic abuse is also escalating.
3 years agoThis started out with a big body count in a nursing home in Washington State, and IMO that wasn’t a mistake.
Cuomo infected nursing homes, and IMO that wasn’t a mistake either.
No one releases a virus without knowing what it will do, and this was no natural outbreak.
The Democrats played the virus to get a rapid body count. (Fear campaign to get voting by mail)
The Democrats made sure our medical supplies for a pandemic were depleted.
I don’t call them mass murderers for no reason. This is just the latest example.
Remember Nancy and Chuck opposing a secure border despite 70,000+ US citizens dying annually as a result of the open border, and a massive invasion was in progress? (D)eath
Providing sanctuaries for illegal invaders, including MS13 = (D)eath
Importing, embracing, protecting, and giving political power to Muslims = (D)eath
Forcing our dependence on a communist nation for pharmaceuticals…(D)eath
3 years agoReply to spfoam1Yeah. Just exactly WHO are the “granny killers”? ‘T’ain’t Trump, that’s for sure . . . have you noticed this is also a trend in the Wicked Witch of the Midwest’s bailiwick of Michigan?
3 years agoReply to Patriotic AmericanYep.
I wonder if she has an old well in the basement.
I think she murders men and does things with their skin.There’s something wrong with these Democrats. I swear they’re all psychopaths….
3 years agoAs long as they vote in November nobody will do anything about the deaths.
3 years agoSo the shelter in place order turned out to be a death sentence for nursing home patients. What a boon for social security and medicare. You have to wonder if the policies were deliberately implemented to kill off these people by apparatchiks in the state and federal government.
3 years agoReply to MuhamMUDTheFakeProphetIt does seem that staying at home and out of the sun, which kills it, has been the worst advise.
3 years agoGov. Como has shown himself to be without empathy for the citizens of NY State. He has changed law governing abortions to allow abortions right up to the moment of birth. Killing GOD’S beautiful babies without a second thought !
Also he has ordered that seniors with Corona19 are to be returned to the old age homes from which they came, regardless that they might and in fact will infect other vulnerable seniors causing even more deaths ! He appears to be working along side “SATAN” ……..3 years agoAll this makes me wonder just how much money States like NY & NJ save by having “lost” so many of the people in the nursing homes???
3 years agoSpring cleaning is what the libturds call it. But it really is just socialism. The government forced this which effectively killed off the most sacred and in need of protection group.
3 years agoThey get a kick back if the death is COVID-19, so doctors filling out death certificates are pressured to label it COVID regardless of the primary cause of death or even if it is not a virus death. These doctor’s falsifying death certificates should be imprisoned.
Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital, you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000, three times as much.
3 years agoThe first response of Texas Gov.Abbott and Lt.Gov.Patrick was to protect the nursing and convalescent homes.PPE and tests were provided along with hydroquinone and the CCP Virus was stopped in its tracks. That’s the Republican/Conservative response. The response of the Commiecrats was to ignore the nursing homes and infect them by moving infected patents into them and not providing the proper PPE and tests. That’s called negligent homicide in Texas and would earn the perps 20-40 years. If it was done for deliberate political purposes then its MURDER ONE and the needle for the perps.
