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[quote=Anonymous]Maryland just released, for the first time, cases and deaths from COVID in nursing homes. Like I said in the title, 22% of our cases and 50% of our deaths are from nursing homes.

My takeaways:

1. Those places are practically death sentences for old people and need radical changes.

2. We need to exclude those cases and deaths from the numbers as we think about reopening because they are not community spread. We know where they came from and the risk of exposure is to other residents and workers, not the general public. We need a completely different, separate policy response to nursing homes versus the rest of the community.

Outside of nursing homes, Maryland has 15,700 cases—roughly—and about 478 deaths. In MoCo, a county of 1 million people, we have about 2600 cases and 92 deaths outside of nursing homes.

This pandemic looks very different when you exclude nursing homes.

I feel horrible for the people in those places.

All the data is at Coronavirus.maryland.gov. [/quote]

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