4 in 10 nursing homes have a COVID outbreak and the death rate is high. What's going wrong?
- Written by: Hal Swerissen, Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University
ShutterstockAround 3% (6,100) of the 200,000 residents in Australia’s aged care facilities had COVID, as of July 22, in addition to 3,400 staff.
About 1,000 facilities – nearly 40% of the total – had an outbreak.
Aged care residents are also disproportionately dying of COVID. Those in nursing homes account for nearly 30% of the...