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Except it IS community spread, and workers there can and do spread the infection outside of their workplace and into the community, including hospitals, other nursing homes, group homes, and prisons... all places with people highly likely to catch it, and perhaps die from it.

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No. It’s not. Treat nursing home workers totally differently. You can isolate them until this is over. We need a strong public health response to this. This is NOT the same as general community spread. [/quote]

Unless all the residents/workers of these nursing homes took recent vacations to Wuhan, it IS community spread. Members of the COMMUNITY SPREAD the virus to workers and patients.

I get that you are advocating for some plan that isolates these sub-communities to allow the rest of society to open up, and there may very well be a way to do that if you can actually test and measure the spread of the virus elsewhere, but you don't get to just redefine established words and phrases that have real meaning and implications. Unless there is some data that shows the spread in these nursing homes is all due to resident patient zeros, the fact is the rest of society brought the virus to the nursing homes, not the other way around. So even if you isolate them, that means the virus is still floating around the rest of us. [/quote]

Hogan has already said he is not considering high occupancy living, like nursing homes, and I assume jails, as community spread for obvious reasons.  [/quote]

Do you have a link that offers more details about this and what it means? The only reference I can find to this is on pg 27 of the plan (https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/MD_Strong.pdf) where it says “stop signs” leading to slowing or reversing the initial stages of reopening will NOT include outbreaks, like those in nursing homes, where contact tracing can establish route of transmission. That makes sense, but I don’t see any other details in there about separating  nursing homes or other high occupancy living for the purposes of determining when we reopen. Maybe I’m missing it - I just skimmed - but the one reference I’m seeing is different than what OP is talking about. [/quote]

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