Nursing homes are highly vulnerable to the pandemic because patients are elderly, live in nearby neighborhoods, and suffer from other fitness disorders that make them more vulnerable to COVID-19, researchers at Yale School of Public Health said.
His survey found that 28% of the other 2117 people examined at 33 nursing homes were inflamed with the virus.The tests were completed in mid-June.
“Nursing homes have been the epicenter of the disease in Connecticut and much of the United States and Europe,” said Dr. Sunil Parikh, associate professor of epidemiology and medicine at Yale.
“Without widespread scrutiny of all citizens, it would have been highly unlikely that adequate infection measures had been instituted, such as isolating inflamed, non-inflamed and exposed citizens,” Parikh said in a university press release.
People living in nursing account for more than 60% of COVID-19 deaths in the state, the researchers said.
Of 601 people inflamed, about 90% had no symptoms of the disease, and only a small number evolved with symptoms, Parikh discovered.
“This study also shows how temporarily the virus can settle in collection locations, as most nursing homes had more than a portion of their citizens testing positive in the month following the identity of their first case, despite popular infection prevention measures over time,” Parikh told me.”It is transparent that PPE and testing shortages, combined with a symptom-based detection strategy, have made it difficult to detect these outbreaks early.”
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“What we want to find out now is the optimal frequency for repeated surveys of citizens and staff in the future.Cases in nursing homes have now decreased significantly, and we also want to rigorously assess the effect of unique prevalence surveys on reducing outbreaks on those collection parameters,” Parikh said.