This is stunning. In New Jersey, 12 percent of nursing home residents died of Covid.https://www.propublica.org/article/fire-through-dry-grass-andrew-cuomo-saw-covid-19-threat-to-nursing-homes-then-he-risked-adding-to-it …
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It's really hard to contain these sorts of things, especially when places are understaffed. Lot of people are in contact with one another. A lot of people get sick in *hospitals* because of how things spread. Nursing homes aren't kept to the same standards.
Sure once it’s in the whole place gets it, but you really think every single nursing home was that incompetent about preventing original transmission?
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Every single? No. As an industry? Yeah. There's a lot of corner-cutting that tends to happen because care is expensive, and infirm elderly tend to not have a lot of money. This disease is also pernicious in that it's transmissible for as much as a week before symptoms appear.
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A lot of nursing home staff work in multiple facilities in a single week. Hard to stop it from spreading if such a worker is transmitting pre-symptomatically.
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