it is a developed world problem
simply put the way people live/work is not suited to multi-generational families - I wish it were
Why?
There should be much greater regulation along with frequent inspections and a mandate that residents have information in their rooms about how to report issues directly to the government.
Those things obviously wouldn't help with the coronavirus issues at present, but having that type of government infrastructure involved with nursing homes would have put a lot of pieces in place to allow for a more consistent and coherent response when we started seeing Covid cases.
Of course we also needed PPE and testing en masse at nursing homes early on, so maybe it wouldn't have mattered anyway.
In fact in NY the nursing homes themselves pleaded with the governor to not force the return of these COVID positive individuals back to the nursing homes. The governor of NY actually scrubbed his order from the state website sending these infected patients from hospitals back to nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
You can use whatever asinine ideas You like to protect your stance on big government. Not enough government wasn't the problem here, the government was essentially sending smallpox blankets into these at risk communities. If those people voted blue or were one of the protected classes, the access media would be all over this.
Isn't this also true for non-private prisons?
At any rate, this is shocking in how skewed it is. Not clear what the takeaway is. That we need a better story for an immunity later between at risk groups?
I'm still not sure, either, how this squares with the current mask story. Nursing homes bad at cleaning and isolation of sick individuals? Feels off. But not shockingly so. Regardless, hard to see how people in a mask at the grocery are somehow preventing people in long term care from getting it, at large.
Edit:. I say all of that as someone that is wearing a mask nowadays.
However, NY recently revised how they are counting these deaths, and they now count them in a way where if the nursing home resident is transferred to the hospital, they are generally not counted as a nursing home death. Up until very recently, they were counting that as a nursing home death the same as every other state in the union.
They've been the only state to make such changes so far, but the governor did make a deal with the nursing homes to limit their liability during this situation as well so this is pretty much par for the course here.
[1] https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/05/07/82-of-ca...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/05/26/nursin...
In a number of states its a much higher percentage.
