With the focus on Andrew Cuomorbidity's disastrous nursing home policy in New York State, not enough attention is being given to a similar situation brewing in Minnesota nursing homes that is still ongoing. 1/4 startribune.com/minn-nursing-h…
81% of COVID deaths in Minnesota occurred in nursing homes, yet state regulators are still sending patients discharged from hospitals back to those nursing homes. Meanwhile Minnesota ICUs were nearly at capacity this week. 2/4 startribune.com/twin-cities-ic…
Minnesota is currently the 5th worst state in terms of infection rates right now. 3/4 washingtonpost.com/health/study-e…
One more data point here - the breakdown of COVID cases by age group in MN shows that the elderly represent a way smaller % of COVID cases than people under 60, yet nursing home residents alone account for 81% of deaths. 4/4 health.state.mn.us/diseases/coron…
The lesson here isn't "maintain lockdowns forever." It's that priorities over risk factors and what to reopen and when are totally out of whack. Activities that should be able to resume fully or partially with relatively little danger are banned while this keeps happening. 5/4
