{"id":1167,"date":"2020-06-16T16:08:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2025-09-29T00:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:50:01","slug":"coronavirus-deaths-in-us-nursing-homes-top-50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus deaths in US nursing homes top 50,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/coronavirus-deaths-in-u-s-nursing-long-term-care-facilities-top-50-000-11592306919?mod=hp_lead_pos2&amp;mod=djemalertNEWS\">Facilities weigh coronavirus risk of allowing visitors against ills caused by prolonged isolation <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding-left: 40px;\">The U.S. death toll from Covid-19 in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities has topped 50,000, marking a grim milestone in a pandemic that is taking a heavy toll on the oldest and most vulnerable people, state data show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding-left: 40px;\">A Wall Street Journal tally of counts from around the U.S. also show more than 250,000 novel coronavirus infection cases among residents and staffers at long-term care facilities, along with 50,919 deaths. Measured against the overall count of more than 116,000 Covid-19 deaths in the U.S., compiled by Johns Hopkins University, buildings meant to house and care for seniors are linked to more than 40% of pandemic\u2019s deaths in the U.S. thus far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal Facilities weigh coronavirus risk of allowing visitors against ills caused by prolonged isolation The U.S. death toll from Covid-19 in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities has topped 50,000, marking a grim milestone in a pandemic that is taking a heavy toll on the oldest and most vulnerable people, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/6135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}