
COVID-19 cases and deaths in nursing home residents and staff U.S. 2021| Statista
As of March 7, 2021, there had been a total number of 641,608 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 130,296 deaths among nursing home residents in the United States.

That's not what it said. It said combining high infection rates and low infections with vulnerable groups. Plenty of countries have shown that you can keep infections down, protecting the vulnerable at the same time (which is completely logical). Countries that are able to do that, also have less economic damage - a good comparison is for example Norway and Finland vs. Sweden: the first two had far less cases, far less dead, and suffered lower economic losses in the first wave compared to Sweden. It's mainly the virus that is causing harm to the economy.Well then we should keep doing the same thing while expecting different results.
So mental problems are irrelevant for c. 20% of the population (i.e. the vulnerable). Way to counter your own empathy argument. How does an 85-year-old who needs daily care "shelter" exactly?Right. Because we know who is vulnerable (elderly, morbidities, etc) so it’s just not fair to even suggest that those at most risk shelter until vaccines are available. Yes, far better to demand the whole of the population shelter so we can destroy many more lives.
Duh, I live in a welfare state dude. People are actually supported by their government.I’ll go ahead and guess you aren’t being harmed financially by the shut downs.
I see that this would make sense epidemiologically, but have you ever spent day after day just visiting with a nursing home? Oh god, I’m pretty sure I would quit if I was told I had to stay in the NH 24 hrs a day. I could totally see that in hospitals I’ve worked in, but not in a nursing home.The nursing home data show that deaths continue to rise there more or less in parallel with cases in society. Here's a radical idea:
Require all NH staff to live in the NH 24/7. Maybe allow them to go outside once a week to visit their families or whatever, but mostly lock them in. If they can't go out, they can't get infected, and they can't bring the infection back to the NH patients. Spare those patients, and you cut the mortality rate by 40%.
Given that NH patients are first in line for vaccinations, this would only have to be temporary, so it wouldn't be that much of a burden on the staff.
It's mainly the virus that is causing harm to the economy.
So mental problems are irrelevant for c. 20% of the population (i.e. the vulnerable). Way to counter your own empathy argument. How does an 85-year-old who needs daily care "shelter" exactly?
Duh, I live in a welfare state dude.
People are actually supported by their government.
but I will put on my social catchers mitt and prepare for another wild pitch like the comment about the young guy having a stroke as no big deal..to flip to be believed..
I think we went over this before, but influenza doesn't really kill school age children unless they have other issues. Under 5 are the susceptible ones.No. It's our reaction to the virus that's causing harm to the economy.
Not irrelevant at all. But to the point, if we knew that the virus brutally attacked the young (H1N1) but had posed very little risk adults would we shut down schools and the economy and sequester kids, or just shut down schools and sequester kids?
Maybe by next fall it will be available to actually receive.
The election is over. It has been over for a freaking month.
People like you are the reason why half the population cannot determine what they should believe about the virus. To you the virus is just something that can be used to push your political agenda, and you don't give a damn about the people who die because of turmoil and toxic environment you deliberately create.
Not clear to me what the Pfizer situation is. The media have reported that the Administration turned down a chance to buy more than 100 million doses, so there won't be enough for the country until maybe June or later. However, Azar says that when the Administration committed to paying for the 100 million doses, they also signed an agreement to negotiate on further doses, and he seems to be saying the Administration is still negotiating.
Well, that's about 1% the length of time since the reasoned decision, and you're still trashing Tygart, and even Betsy and JV. None of them, even according to their worst critics, has caused remotely as much damage as the President's attacks on the electoral system probably have.
If the paragraph preceding this one hadn't referred to someone's posts, I might have thought this one was addressed to the President.
Given that any pandemic demands a political response, anyone's view of it is going to be colored by one's political views. But there is a huge difference--which seems to get lost in all the political sniping--between promoting a certain political response based on your understanding of the virus, on the one hand, and using the virus to reinforce a political view, on the other. Most people who advocate social restrictions do so because they they believe, rightly or wrongly, that these will save more lives, NOT because they see this as a way of promoting more governmental control, or as an excuse to bash Trump.
Whenever there's a horrific crash on certain stage finishes, many riders complain about the lack of foresight by the race organizers in allowing that kind of road conditions. Are they using the crash as a way of promoting more control over all aspects of the race by the organizers? Of course not, they're just trying to stay safe.
You quoted the last sentence only, thus removing the part where I demonstrated that stricter measures early on actually save the economy. If you keep the virus in check, you're better off than when you keep things open 'for economical reasons', as in the latter case, you'll be overwhelmed eventually, thus having to cut deeper or risk dead bodies piling up. Even if you do nothing, there will be plenty of people not going out anymore, thus hurting the economy as well. Moreover, there's an economic cost to people getting sick, suffering from long term covid effects.No. It's our reaction to the virus that's causing harm to the economy.
Again, no country has succeeded in having high infection rates AND avoid the infections reaching the vulnerable. Sweden has tried, and failed. So your argument is neglecting reality.Not irrelevant at all. But to the point, if we knew that the virus brutally attacked the young (H1N1) but had posed very little risk adults would we shut down schools and the economy and sequester kids, or just shut down schools and sequester kids?
Not everybody in high risk groups need daily care. An 85 year old that needs daily care is at risk (not just from COVID either) and there's no way around it. CDC has published guidelines and access to PPE, testing and training at these facilities hopefully is extremely high on the priority list. Do we shut down the economy to then do a miserable job protecting those in nursing homes? It's really not can we protect this group it's will we protect this group. See MI's post above.
As long as the Belgian government can borrow at negative rates (i.e. we receive money for new debts), I think that is not the most pressing issue. I'd rather sacrifice some economic growth for a society in which people are supported for bridging the tough times, don't get evicted from their homes, and can avoid ending up in poverty and all the problems that causes in the longer term. If economic growth means Jeff Bezos can buy 10 new private planes but average Joe needs to work two jobs just to get by, what is it worth then?Belgian GDP 2020 Q1, -2%, Q2, -13.9%, Q3, -4.5%. You guys were locked down again in Q4 so those numbers will be bleak and Q1 2021 probably won't be much better and the EU heavy hitters are doing as bad or worse than Belgium.
I think the question you should be asking yourself is how long do you think that welfare support can continue?
With more information released today on the Pfizer vaccine, it looks extremely good. Maybe by next fall it will be available to actually receive. I'd be willing to take it. I'm still not sure about the Moderna one. I refuse to take the AstraZenica one. There are way too many problems with it's study and it's effective rate is way, way, way below the other two. Obviously we still have no information yet on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and won't until sometime in January at the soonest. The big difference with the J&J one is that it's just one shot compared to two shots.