Saturday, April 25, 2020

A couple of more posts from Healthy Skeptic, Kevin Roche, about how the epidemic in nursing homes and in the larger population are largely separate:  first one; second one.

Over the past two days, over 90% of the new deaths have been of long-term care residents. They are now about three-quarters of Minnesota's death toll, while from numbers in his second post, they are less than 2% of the state's population (about 80,000, out of 5.6 million people).

There are now about one hundred care facilities in the state with known positives.  The bad news is that that must be a small fraction of the total number of facilities, so there are tens of thousands of potential infections still to come, with many deaths.  The good news is that there is still time to put a more effective infection firewall around many of them.

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