Posted on May 12, 2020
‘The Whole Place Is Sick Now’: 74 Deaths at a Home for U.S. Veterans
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The coronavirus has preyed on residents of nursing homes in New Jersey with lethal force, claiming 4,953 lives. Deaths at long-term care facilities now account for more than half of the state’s Covid-19 fatalities, well over the national rate.
But nowhere has the devastation been starker than at the New Jersey Veterans Home at Paramus, a state-run home for former members of the U.S. military, where on Tuesday 74 deaths had been linked to virus.
The home is built on the idea that those who served in the military are entitled to dignified care in their twilight years. Instead, in what some people have called a betrayal of this fundamental pact, the Paramus home is the site of one of the biggest coronavirus outbreaks in the country.
The virus has swept through the facility, which in late March had 314 residents, infecting 60 percent of its patients.
But nowhere has the devastation been starker than at the New Jersey Veterans Home at Paramus, a state-run home for former members of the U.S. military, where on Tuesday 74 deaths had been linked to virus.
The home is built on the idea that those who served in the military are entitled to dignified care in their twilight years. Instead, in what some people have called a betrayal of this fundamental pact, the Paramus home is the site of one of the biggest coronavirus outbreaks in the country.
The virus has swept through the facility, which in late March had 314 residents, infecting 60 percent of its patients.
‘The Whole Place Is Sick Now’: 74 Deaths at a Home for U.S. Veterans
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I have likened the pandemic to fighting the Taliban. We don't always know who they are. Where they are at. How many. They are mobile. When will they strike?
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The numbers are skewed and this coming to light more and more. In Illinois, if you are on hospice and die of cancer but tested pos for COVID, it becomes a COVID death. People routinely die at nursing homes and how do we know these 74 were actually tested or presumed positive? What is the normal death rate at these homes compared to now? Nursing homes do not have pathology departments, autopsies are not carried out there, and what is the priority of testing for these dead elderly verses the alive younger patients? Do nursing homes get increased government funds if one of their patients test positive? So many questions to this headline.
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Sadly a nursing home here in Washington was the first hotspot. Nursing homes are clusters because of very close quarters, very low quality/quantity staffing, very limited medical (doctor) staffing, reduced availability of medications, poor insurance coverage and budgets, and the fact that the residents are already so vulnerable due to age, illness and disability - particularly our veteran community who already come in quite ill.
I have worked in nursing homes as a chaplain, and seen it as a daughter, and it is not pretty...
I have worked in nursing homes as a chaplain, and seen it as a daughter, and it is not pretty...
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