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In the April 2021 issue of Health Affairs, Cyrus M. Kosar and coauthors investigate changes in mortality risk for nursing home residents from March to November 2020.
Nursing Home COVID-19 Mortality Rates
Declined In 2020
With more than one-third of US coronavirus deaths linked to nursing homes, this population warrants specific mortality tracking, separate from the general public.
In a recent Health Affairs paper, Cyrus M. Kosar and coauthors investigated changes in COVID-19 mortality rates for
nursing home residents from March to November 2020. They found that mortality rates of nursing home residents with COVID-19 fell from 26.4 percent in March to 10.0 percent in November 2020.
Since mortality risk declined for symptomatic and asymptomatic groups, the overall decline in mortality rates was not driven by the increased detection of asymptomatic, less severe
cases.
The authors also found that, across all months, residents with significant cognitive and functional impairment had higher mortality rates than those with less impairment.
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