Just like I said. It works both ways. All kinds of people in USA have died at home, and nursing homes, and were not tested. Many were showing Covid 19 symptoms.
Going by people tested, and those that have died worldwide.
Death Rate is 6.9%
More than 2,200 coronavirus deaths in nursing homes, but federal government isn't tracking them
As COVID-19 afflicts thousands in nursing homes, officials are pushed to disclose details
The numbers are likely a significant undercount, given the limited access to testing and other constraints, state officials and public health experts say.
Nearly 2,500 long-term care facilities in 36 states are battling coronavirus cases, according to data gathered by NBC News from state agencies, an explosive increase of 522 percent compared to a federal tally just 10 days ago.
The total dwarfs the last federal
estimate on March 30 — based on “informal outreach” to state health departments — that more than 400 nursing homes had at least one case of the virus.
The full scale of the virus’ impact is even greater than NBC News’ tally, as key states including Florida did not provide data, and nursing homes across the United States are still
struggling for access to testing.
The toll of these outbreaks is growing. NBC News tallied 2,246 deaths associated with long-term care facilities, based on responses from 24 states. This, too, is an undercount; about half of all states said they could not provide data on nursing home deaths, or declined to do so. Some states said they do not track these deaths at all.
Nursing home residents are among those most likely to die from the coronavirus, given their advanced age and the prevalence of other health conditions. But the federal government
does not keep a formal tally of the number of coronavirus deaths in nursing homes or the number of facilities with infections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Experts say more comprehensive data is critical to battling the virus and understanding why it is spreading faster in some nursing homes than others.
“It’s impossible to fight and contain this virus if we don’t know where it’s located,” said David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, who added that more information-gathering and transparency could help protect against future outbreaks. “You could see where it could be headed next,” he said.
Hundreds of UK care home deaths not added to official coronavirus toll
Exclusive: Industry body estimates up to 1,000 people may have died in care homes so far
Care industry leaders and the Alzheimer’s Society say they believe the virus is now active in around half of care settings, which look after about 400,000 people in the UK. This is far higher than the estimate given by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK government’s chief medical officer, who said on Tuesday that just over 9% of care homes had cases of Covid-19.
ason Oke, a senior statistician at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care
Health Sciences in Oxford, said the current figures were “obviously an underestimate of the severity of the pandemic”.
“The worry is that we discover in six months that the numbers are way larger because no one was counting what was happening in care homes,” he said.
Amid fears that the virus is spreading rapidly through homes, especially among dementia patients who are hard to isolate, care leaders and unions are demanding immediate action to deliver more testing and PPE.
The Alzheimer’s Society said on Thursday it fears hundreds of thousands of people with dementia “are being abandoned in care homes”. The trade union Unison also sent a dossier of hundreds of carers’ complaints about a lack of PPE to ministers, including one report of a carer wearing a bag over their face in the absence of a mask.
