AARP Dashboard: Virginia’s COVID-19 nursing home death rate second highest in the nation
Published Thursday, Mar. 11, 2021, 11:52 am
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The latest release of AARP’s Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard shows that both cases and deaths in nursing homes fell in the four weeks ending Feb. 14.
Although these rates are improving, new infections and deaths in nursing homes are still more than twice as high as they were in the summer of 2020. While deaths of Virginia nursing home residents are more than a third lower than what they were in the previous time period, the state’s rate this period (1.72 deaths per 100 residents) is the second-highest in the nation.
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