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by DanBC
2254 days ago
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People dying in care and nursing homes are not on ventilators. This may be a significant number of covid-19 deaths. https://ltccovid.org/2020/04/12/mortality-associated-with-co... > Key findings: > Official data on the numbers of people affected by COVID-19 is not available in many countries > Due to differences in testing availabilities and policies, and to different approaches to recording deaths, international comparisons are difficult > Data from 3 epidemiological studies in the United States show that as many as half of people with COVID-19 infections in care homes were asymptomatic (or pre-symptomatic) at the time of testing > Data from 5 European countries suggest that care home residents have so far accounted for between 42% and 57% of all deaths related to COVID-19. |
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