A public health agency official has told the UK Covid-19 inquiry that visiting in care homes during the pandemic was about "managing risk". Heather Reid, the interim director of Nursing, Midwifery and ...

If any of these symptoms are present, they should not be allowed to enter the care home. 4. Management responsibilities. Care homes should establish links with their nearest health facility providing ...

Federal regulators will review the official tally of COVID-19 deaths at one of the nation’s largest nursing home chains after the company cut its reported death toll by an unprecedented 42% ...

At least 54,000 residents and workers at nursing homes and other ... People over 65 represent more than three-quarters of America’s nearly 131,000 coronavirus deaths. The age of nursing home ...

We defined high-COVID-19 counties as those with more than 600 cases per 100,000 population (3,680 nursing homes in 492 US counties, or 25.3 percent of nursing homes in 17.0 percent of counties ...

As of Sept. 10, about three-fourths of the home’s workers were up-to-date with their previous Covid vaccines, triple the national rate for nursing home employees, according to federal records.

“Covid is not pretty in a nursing home,” said Deb Wityk, a 70-year-old retired massage therapist who lives in one called Spurgeon Manor, in rural Iowa. She twice contracted the disease and is ...

Nursing homes should not allow COVID-positive visitors to enter. Sponsor Message. But residents can still receive visits if their facility is in the midst of an outbreak investigation or if they ...

Government records reveal how supply shortages, lapses in care, a lack of transparency and inadequate infection control precautions are fueling the spread of Covid-19 within America’s nursing homes.