At the start of the pandemic, few understood how many people in the U.S. could die from Covid. Now, the toll exceeds the number of deaths on all the battlefields in all of America’s wars combined. (via nytimes)
Note: Each dot shows deaths and income for one ZIP code. | Sources: Census Bureau, N.Y.C. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, California Department of Public Health, City of Chicago
Granville, N.Y., fell and broke her hip in May 2020, she moved into a nursing home for an eight-week stay. Her daughter, Frances Brunner, was terrified. In the end, though, Ms. Brunner said the pandemic turned her against the idea of her mother living in a facility long term. In total, more than 200,000 deaths — about one in five of all who have died — have been associated with these facilities.
Industry leaders have called on the federal government to make a major investment to protect nursing homes by improving staffing and care. “What have we done to prevent 200,000 nursing home deaths from the next virus?” Dr. Wright, who now works at two different care facilities, asked. “We didn’t do much.”was