Trump administration still not disclosing number of nursing home deaths
By Associated Press -April 19, 2020 10:00 AM
Even some staff members don't know. They're hiding it because it's bad for business and it's just horrible.'
Federal health officials are coming under increasing pressure to start publicly tracking coronavirus infections and deaths in nursing homes amid criticism they have not been transparent about the scope of outbreaks across the country that have already claimed thousands of lives.
Experts say the lack of tracking and transparency has been a major blind spot, and that publicizing outbreaks as they happen could not only alert nearby communities and anguished relatives but also help officials see where to focus testing and other safety measures.
"This is basic public health — you track this, you study it, and you learn from it," said David Grabowski, who specializes in health care policy at Harvard Medical School. He said it's difficult to have confidence in officials' ability to contain the virus if they aren't tracking where it has struck and why.
Such an action by the agencies that oversee the nation's 15,000 nursing homes is seen as long overdue, coming more than a month after a nursing home in Washington state became the first COVID-19 hot spot in the U.S. with an outbreak that ultimately killed 43 people and a near-daily drumbeat of new cases that in some cases has forced entire homes to be evacuated.
https://americanindependent.com/coronavirus-nursing-homes-outbreaks-federal-government-tracking-pandemic-covid-19/
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It's bad for business..........
........presently in my wife's family, her father is in a therapeutic home after major surgery for hip replacement he is almost 90 years of age, and we are trying and waiting to move him and her mother ( 90 years old) into assisted long term care facility for both of them, you think that just maybe, we have a right to know if it is safe, and I my side, my family is dealing with getting our parents into a assisted home, and this Russian troll farm in the white house doesn't want to give out the information ...........
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