COVID-19 infections are soaring again at U.S. nursing homes because of the omicron wave, and deaths are climbing too
A total of 645 COVID-19-related deaths among residents were recorded during the same week, a 47% increase from the earlier period. And there are fears that deaths could go much higher before omicron is through.
Nursing home officials say they are responding to the outbreak by limiting visitors to common areas instead of allowing them into residents’ rooms, and by reinstituting social distancing. Booster numbers are much worse for staff members. About 83% are fully vaccinated, but only 29% have gotten an extra dose.
About 57,200 nursing home workers — by far the highest number on record during the pandemic — had the virus in the week ending Jan. 9, a more than tenfold increase from a month earlier, according to the CDC. “I worked so hard to make sure he never got , because I was so terrified,” she said. “He’s such an older man, and I don’t want to lose him this way.”
“We need to build a Fort Knox around protecting nursing homes, but we’re not doing that right now, and that’s why cases are surging,” Feigl-Ding said Thursday. “We’re going to have exponential numbers of hospitalizations and deaths.”
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