By Eric A. Blair, GATEWAY PUNDIT May 28, 2020
In a fascinating new analysis published by Forbes, the researchers find data that supports what The Gateway Pundit has been saying for ages: COVID-19 is very dangerous to the elderly — especially in nursing homes — but not so much for everyone else.
Some 2.1 million Americans, which represents just 0.62% of the U.S. population, live in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. “According to an analysis that Gregg Girvan and I conducted for the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, as of May 22, in the 39 states that currently report such figures, an astounding 43% of all COVID-19 deaths have taken place in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.”
That’s nearly half of all deaths.
“Among states reporting their death totals, 42% of COVID deaths have taken place in long-term care facilities; we estimate the share as 43% for the full U.S. population, based on incorporating the demographics of the non-reporting states,” the writers say.
And 43% could be an undercount. States like New York exclude from their nursing home death tallies those who die in a hospital, even if they were originally infected in an assisted living facility. Outside of New York, more than half of all deaths from COVID-19 are of residents in long-term care facilities.
Prior to last week, Ohio reported that 41% of COVID deaths were taking place in long-term care facilities. But updated disclosures last Friday, taking deaths prior to April 15 into account, upped that share to 70%.
In Minnesota, 81% of all COVID-19 deaths are of nursing home and residential care home residents. The region from the eastern seaboard from Virginia to New Hampshire has been especially hard-hit.
Take Virginia, which has an estimated 8,536,000 people. The percentage who have contracted COVID-29: 0.4%. The percentage of the population in the state who have died: 0.014%. Of the dead, 77.4% were 70 or older (51.7% were 80+). Percentage of Virginians under 50 who died: 2.9% (of those who contracted virus). But that age group made up 60.2% of all infected in Virginia, which means the cure rate is sky high.
Then there’s this stat: 70+ age groups made up just 12.2% of all infected, but 77.4% of deaths.
If you elderly or infirm, COVID-19 could be bad. On the other had, some people 100+ have gotten the virus and survived.
New York state has seen more nursing home deaths from the coronavirus than any other state. Why? Because Gov. Andrew Cuomo enacted a state directive that required nursing homes to take in any and all coronavirus patients, which then swept through the most vulnerable population.
“New York has seen over 5,300 coronavirus-related deaths in nursing homes, which is about one-fifth of the nation’s total of nursing home deaths (about 26,000). The Associated Press reports an average of 20 to 25 nursing home deaths per day in the state of New York,” the AP wrote last week.
@ Bear Klein:
Hi, Bear. If the Dems had a ghost of a chance at winning at the polls, It doesn’t make sense that they would be trying to destroy the economy, rig the elections and create anarchy in the streets — as well as spending years in futile “impeachments”. Those are the actions of desperate losers.
Concerning the pandemic: Obviously, the anarchists roaming the streets of our cities, destroying government buildings and invading, of all places, CNN headquarters (I kid you not) are not concerned about masks (except to disguise their identities) and “social distancing”. They put the lie to the whole “progressive” narrative.
Meanwhile, REAL, honest people, like a friend of ours testing people in California for COVID, have to deal with the raw reality of it: Four patients dying in a nursing home today in an isolated, rural community. May God help us in these terrible times.
A number of “CV-19 deaths” are not due to the virus but to improper diagnoses and/or treatments.
Inappropriate use of respirators and failure early on the diagnose coagulopathies are 2 significant factors.
@ Michael S:
I am for cautiously reopening businesses with safeguards.
By the way I hope Trump wins but I it is too early to know who will win in my view. The swing states are imperative again.
Hi, Bear
I realize that this pandemic is deadly dangerous, and that people in “vulnerable groups”, like you and I, need to take extra precautions to protect ourselves. It’s like being in combat: you are fighting real enemies with real deadly weapons; but you can’t win wars by forever cowering in foxholes. There is a time to get out and advance; and at this stage in the current pandemic, this is that time.
2020 will be remembered, in reality as well as fake history, for many things; but the COVID pandemic is going to pale in comparison to the US Presidential election, if not for even more pressing matters, such as:
1. the current insurrection in major US cities. It is masked by faked outrage over a police killing in Minneapolis; but you can bet who the perpetrators are (Think Soros, Antifa, Muslim groups, desperate Democrats). It’s bedoming increasinly obvious that the Dems are headed for disaster at the polls, unless they can flat-out stuff ballot boxes and, if possible, create a crisis that cancels/ nullifies the election. The orchestrated violence going on right now is similar to Kristallnacht.
2. the possibility of a new, terrible war. China has already de facto started a war with us, by unleashing a bioweapon against us. If there’s an aspect of the deadliness of this virus that needs to get played up, it’s not old people dying in extended care facilities because of the incompetence or craftiness of wicked governors like Cuomo; it’s the fact that in all likelihood, China has deliberately “fired the first shot” in a deadly CBN exchange.
I am glad to see businesses reopening, in spite of the risks. All the credit for this belongs to Donald J. Trump, and to vigilant ordinary Americans.
Dead is Dead in USA 103K and counting. Deadliest pandemic in over 100 years. Quack media trying to find a way to downplay it!