1.2 million. 7% of the general population, was what I heard: Emergency coronavirus measures could last over 18 months and kill 1.2 million in U.S.—even with most effective mitigation strategy
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So that was a high service retirement home or a nursing home?
That seems really high. Overall mortality rates have been hovering around 2% (or maybe less as very few locations have tested enough asymptomatic people to know how many positives exist in that population). I can't see overall mortality jumping to 7%.
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1.2 million out of 328 million is 0.35%. Where did you get 7% from?
Either is going to be overwhelmed at this point. PPE won't be available the way it is at hospitals. Staff won't be as well trained in using it. There will be staff shortages due to the scare. There might still be an issue with staff servicing multiple residences.
Those were the numbers they used to justify the shut down. They were only estimates at the time. I'll take a look and see if I can find the 7% again.
Here's one spot mid March, but it wasn't the one where I saw it originally:Coronavirus Death Rate Soars to 7% in Italy - Is America Next?
Here's a 4.7% article, 6.2% in the U.K. from the end of March: ‘Utterly unreliable’: The mystery behind the true COVID-19 death rate
OK, that makes more sense. Once you exceed the capacity of a local health care system, the mortality spikes in that region as some people just get put out to pasture that could have been medically saved if sufficient resources were available.
Retirement home with nursing. A place like it in Toronto would be close to $7000/month.
Conestogo Lodge. Start saving. If you spent your last 10 years in a place like that....$440,000!
My wifes grandmother was at a really nice place in barrie for a few years until she ran out of money. It's hard to save enough to pay over 70K a year.
neither of those are suitable for my friend.
Oh well death, taxes and now the likelihood most of us will outlive our savings. Just another inevitability of life. Looks like a grim future for many Canadians.
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Among the doom and gloom...some good news. Hope these guys push forward and get us home.
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this guy will lose his job
bigpoppa
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Military blowing the lid on ontario ltc/nursing/retirement homes
Hard not to read this and weep
"We found no rules, a lack of staff training and medical equipment and instances of staff reusing syringes on seniors,"
Hard not to read this and weep
"We found no rules, a lack of staff training and medical equipment and instances of staff reusing syringes on seniors,"
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Yes exactly, I have worked with several retirement residences around the GTA and they are all great places and well staffed, and you can tell they generally care for and look after the residences. But I am sure if COVID were to outbreak in any of these facilities it would overwhelm them. It's a very hands on situation dealing with super seniors and elderly, which takes more time per person. Plus they also have floors specific for physical an mentally challenged individuals. Even more hands on and time, you can't realistically distance yourself from then. They probably can't compensate with enough staff to deal with it all and COVID.
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