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Nursing homes site of 40% of US COVID-19 deaths

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A new analysis in USA Today suggests up to 40% of US deaths from COVID-19 have taken place in nursing homes or long-term care facilities, a staggering statistic that represents 40,600 residents.

More than 2.4 million Americans live in long-term care facilities.That means roughly 450 residents of these facilities have died each day from COVID-19 since March.

But the newspaper said this is likely an undercount, as state reporting is inconsistent. Texas, Virginia, and Arizona, for example, have still not released facility-level data.The USA Today numbers are double what the federal government said yesterday were the number of fatalities in US nursing homes —25,923 out of 60,439 cases.Those numbers were released by the Centers for Medicare &

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