https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/uor-nds082020.php
News Release 20-Aug-2020
University of Rochester
Nearly half of all COVID-19 deaths in the United States have occurred among nursing home residents, whose age, chronic medical conditions, and congregate living quarters place them and their caregivers at high risk of contracting the disease.
And yet, six months into the pandemic, more than 20 percent of nursing homes in the US continue to report severe shortages of staff and personal protective equipment (PPE), according to a new study.
"Twenty percent is a lot, given where we are in the course of this pandemic. I would have hoped by month six we would be close to zero percent," says Brian E. McGarry, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Geriatrics/Aging and Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). He is lead author of a paper released as a fast track ahead of print article by the journal Health Affairs. "While there has been some shifting in which nursing homes have been reporting these problems, from a national level, we're still not on the right trajectory."
•••••
No comments:
Post a Comment