Keeping Elderly Patients Safe
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Around the world, nursing homes and assisted living facilities have been a hotbed for Covid-19 outbreaks. Because older people are particularly vulnerable, the facilities have had some of the deadliest outcomes during the pandemic. But some nursing homes have done much better than others at containing the virus. Angelica LaVito reports on a Seattle-area assisted living company that learned the lessons of the pandemic early, and has managed to keep outbreaks from raging out of control.
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| 0:34.9 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 107 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. |
| 0:44.5 | Our main story? It's well known that nursing homes have suffered some of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks. |
| 0:52.3 | But some care homes seem to be much safer than others. So what's the |
| 0:59.1 | secret to protecting elderly patients? But first, here's what happened in virus news today. Florida suspended drinking at bars across the state effective immediately today. |
| 1:21.6 | It was the state's first major policy shift in response to a surge in COVID-19 cases this month. |
| 1:29.3 | The state's one-day increase in cases Friday was its biggest ever. |
| 1:35.3 | Other Sunbelt hotspots are also seeing cases continue to rise. |
| 1:40.3 | Cases in Arizona jumped 5.4% today, and the state had its biggest yet jump in hospitalizations. |
| 1:49.0 | Governor Doug Ducey said Thursday that hospitals are likely to hit surge capacity very soon, |
| 1:55.9 | with a number of cases in hospitalizations expected to worsen in the next two weeks. |
| 2:04.2 | And in Harris County, Texas, where Houston is located, a level one emergency was declared today. |
| 2:12.3 | That's equivalent to a recommendation that residents stay at home as much as possible to prevent or slow the spread |
| 2:20.5 | of the virus. Finally, the alarming spread of the virus in the U.S. isn't stopping some airlines |
| 2:28.1 | from forging ahead with a complete return to pre-COVID business as usual. |
| 2:38.7 | American Airlines will sell flights to capacity starting on Wednesday, |
| 2:44.3 | abandoning limits on passenger loads it had put in place as a coronavirus safety measure. |
| 2:48.5 | United Airlines hasn't guaranteed to block seats, |
| 2:52.8 | but Delta Airlines has said it will keep middle seats open through September 30th. Southwest Airlines has committed to block middle seats unless |
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