Mortality associated with CV-19 outbreaks in care homes: early international evidence
“Data from 5 European countries suggest that care home residents have so far accounted for between 42% - 57% of all deaths related to COVID-19”
NB @DHSCgovuk ltccovid.org/2020/04/12/mor…
“Data from 5 European countries suggest that care home residents have so far accounted for between 42% - 57% of all deaths related to COVID-19”
NB @DHSCgovuk ltccovid.org/2020/04/12/mor…
“it is important to ensure that the levels of infections & deaths of residents & staff are not ignored & there’s a danger that, by not attempting to measure them, opportunities to inform decisions that policymakers in terms of resource allocations to the care sector may be missed 
Here’s a useful report in the Guardian reminding us that the most robust data comes from Ireland suggesting 54% of COVID
deaths occurred in Care Homes
Given the pressure to divert elderly COVID patients away from hospitals here I can’t help think similar
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
deaths occurred in Care Homes
Given the pressure to divert elderly COVID patients away from hospitals here I can’t help think similar
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
