Prognosis
China’s Nursing Homes Bear Deadly Brunt of Abrupt Covid Pivot
- Deaths start to mount as Covid seeps into nursing homes
- Sudden easing leaves care homes short on drugs, staff
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Covid is starting to tear through nursing homes in China despite efforts by facilities to keep elderly residents protected, showing how severe the consequences of the country’s abrupt pivot from Covid Zero may be.
As China dropped its most severe pandemic-related curbs early this month with little preparation for the surge in cases that followed, many care homes took the decision to shut themselves off from the public and operate in a closed-loop system even without a mandate from the central government to lock down.