More Than 201,000 People in Long-Term Care
Facilities Have Died of COVID-19
A new KFF
analysis finds that more than 201,000 residents and staff of
long-term care facilities have died of COVID-19 since the start of the
pandemic.
The country passed that
grim milestone as the national surge in cases due to the Omicron variant
has started to subside, though deaths are still rising nationwide, and as
nursing homes have been working to increase vaccination and booster rates
among residents and staff, The Supreme Court recently let stand a new
federal rule requiring health care staff to be vaccinated against the
virus.
Roughly 23 percent of
the nearly 882,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. as of Jan. 30, 2022
have been in nursing homes and other long-term care settings, the
analysis of data from federal and state sources shows. People in
long-term care settings were hit especially hard at the start of the
pandemic before large-scale vaccination efforts began in December 2020.
However, long-term care facilities have experienced disproportionately
high case and death rates during the recent surge.
For the full analysis,
as well as other data and analyses about COVID-19 and long-term care, visit
kff.org.
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