Prognosis
Covid Deaths in U.S. Nursing Homes Fall After Ravaging Residents
A pharmacist administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a resident of the Triboro Center nursing home in the Bronx borough of New York on Dec. 21.
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Covid-19 deaths in long-term care centers are declining in the U.S., but the upheaval in elder care may be just getting started.
Facilities for the elderly reported 4,470 covid deaths the week of Feb. 11, the lowest since December. In total, they’ve seen more than a third of U.S. deaths though less than 1% of the population lives in them, according to Covid Tracking Project data.