The Journal analyzed state data and found that there have been 250,000 COVID-19 cases at long-term care facilities, including nursing homes, across the country.
But due to reporting lags and differences in how states report data on coronavirus in long-term care facilities, the actual number of cases and deaths may be much higher than the analysis shows.
New York doesn’t include cases where nursing home residents with COVID-19 were admitted to the hospital and died there, but several other states include those numbers in their nursing home COVID-19 data.
Other states are still reporting scant data, such as Arizona, where the number of long-term facilities with coronavirus cases is reported, but not the number of cases or deaths due to the new coronavirus, the Journal reports.
More articles on post-acute care:
Nursing homes fall short of federal testing recommendation
Wisconsin to test all nursing home residents, staff
Serious infection control issues found at 10 Life Care facilities, CMS says
