re: Nursing Home Covid Deaths By State: Even more reason to open this up.

In the long term care setting, the setting where i make my living, this thing is impossible to stop once it’s in. Your got an infection that that is contagious but invisible for 4-11 days, as we have been told. We, along with many of my colleagues and counterparts, have done everything we have been instructed to do. We have been ahead of most of the the guidelines from CDC, CMS, And the LDH. Even though we have done that, infection is still spreading. You couple that with residents who have most every comorbitity that you should avoid, death is a real possibility. That said, you won’t hear about how the majority of our residents have or are recovering.

We have a strong lobby, yes. We have to have that or we would be even further underfunded, but no one wants to listen to that.