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At the beginning of May 2020, Elizaveta Oleskina, an employee of the Charity Fund "Starost v Radost" (Old Age in Joy), reported that there were cases of COVID-19 in nursing homes for elderly people in 20 Russian regions. [27] The number of the elderly or disabled people living in Russian nursing homes is estimated (as on 2020) about 280.000. [27]
Nursing homes and other long-term care facilities account for about 1% of the U.S. population, but represent 40% of COVID-19 deaths, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
As of January 19, 2022, there were 599,028 confirmed cases, 68,202 suspected cases, and 9,683 COVID-associated deaths in the state. [ 1 ] As of January 17, 2022 [update] , 2,943,928 people (81.07% of the state's population) have received at least an initial dose of a COVID-19 vaccine , and 2,573,422 people (70.86% of the state's population ...
By April 25, the U.S. had more than 905,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 52,000 deaths, giving it a mortality rate around 5.7 percent. (In comparison, Spain's mortality rate was 10.2 percent and Italy's was 13.5 percent.) [87] [88] In April 2020, more than 10,000 American deaths had occurred in nursing homes.
The state’s counting of nursing home COVID deaths has been a source of criticism and the focus of a federal probe, leading to calls for Cuomo and his top health officials to resign.
COVID fatigue. Vaccination rates for nursing home staff reached an all-time high of 91% in the summer of 2021, shortly after the federal government mandated the two-shot series for healthcare workers.
The order further stated that "[n]o resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19". [7] On May 10, 2020, Cuomo rescinded the previous order issued on March 25, which directed nursing homes to admit patients carrying COVID-19. [8]
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