Federal tally missing 16K nursing home COVID-19 deaths -- new report

Research: Federal tally missing 16K nursing home COVID-19 deaths An official federal government tally missed nearly 16,000 COVID-19 nursing home deaths that occurred during the early months of the pandemic, according to new research published Thursday. Nathaniel Weixel TheHill

An official federal government tally missed nearly 16,000 COVID-19 nursing home deaths that occurred during the early months of the pandemic, according to new research published Thursday.

Those missing numbers account for 14 percent of all nursing home deaths in 2020, the study found.

Across the 20 states with available data, the study, led by Harvard researcher Karen Shen and published in the JAMA Network Open, found that 44 percent of all COVID-19 cases and 40 percent of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes counted by state health departments went unreported in the federal data.  ...