Data: 42 Percent of US Coronavirus Deaths Are Linked to Nursing Homes, Where Less Than One Percent of Americans Live

Posted on AllSides May 29th, 2020
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The heartbreaking statistic relayed in my headline is not, as some have suggested, an attempt to diminish the tragedy of the tens of thousands of Americans who have died as a result of lethal Coronavirus outbreaks at nursing homes and long-term care facilities. Every human life has value and dignity, and losing so many aging Americans to this virulent disease is gut-wrenching. The point is not that older lives lost do not matter. The point is that as we make difficult public policy decisions about public health and reopening the...

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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2020/05/28/data-less-than-two-percent-of-americans-live-in-nursing-homes-which-account-for-42-percent-of-us-coronavirus-deaths-n2569466

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