- Under a March 25 directive issued by New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, for example, nursing homes were forbidden to refuse people "solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19." That applied until supplanted by a new rule on May 10 requiring that hospital patients must test negative for COVID-19 before being sent back to nursing homes.
- Authoritative new data on the age distribution of COVID-19 fatalities in Italy is calling into question policies in the U.S., U.K. and elsewhere that imposed general population lockdowns and, in some cases, spread coronavirus in nursing homes among the very age cohort that faces by far the gravest risk from exposure to the disease.
- Prior to that extra capacity becoming available, the British government also allowed elderly patients to be moved from hospitals to nursing homes ("care homes" in the U.K.) to free up existing hospital beds.
- In the House of Commons, on May 13, the new leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, attacked the government by quoting an unnamed cardiologist: "We discharged known, suspected and unknown cases into care homes which were unprepared with no formal warning that patients were infected, no testing available and no PPE (personal protective equipment) to prevent transmission.
- Italian Health Service finding that COVID-19 fatalities are 'mostly elderly people with previous illnesses' calls into question policies imposing general lockdowns.
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Average age of COVID-19 deaths in Italy is 81, new national data reveals
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