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

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Your got an infection that that is contagious but invisible for 4-11 days,

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1+. Therein lies the problem. Workers are infectious, long before they experience symptoms and MANY don't experience symptoms. NH's and hospitals have developed good questionnaires to ask of workers and check temperature of workers before allowing them to enter the facility. But what good is any of that if a large % of those currently infected and contagious w/ covid don't have symptoms (some studies are suggesting as many as 30-40% of covid patients don't have symptoms)? For the worker who gets covid and develops symptoms, they were still contagious and shedding virus to all their contacts for 2-3 days before developing symptoms. Given this, how can one prevent covid from entering a NH? That's where all these agencies and government have let us down. Where are the SPECIFIC guidelines from the CDC to prevent covid from entering a NH? What we've go now doesn't work. Where is the rapid, affordable and easily done PCR testing for covid that could be done by a HS graduate or LPN on workers entering the health care facility? That way one could pick up covid workers in the early stages of the illness and ward off the patients exposed to that worker before covid has gone through the entire facility. To test for covid, a nursing home can't afford a $90K device and a lab tech to run the device. Sometimes one can't help but wonder: Is the government really interested in shutting down covid in the nursing homes??