Deaths rose 17% in US assisted living residents during COVID-19From January to August 2020, 17% more US assisted living residents died compared with the same months in 2019, and excess deaths hit 24% in the hardest-hit states, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter yesterday.The researchers used Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, including Vital Status Data, from 2018 to 2020, to look at more than 422,000 facilities each year in 49 states and Washington, DC. (Minnesota was excluded because it licenses agencies, not physical locations.) Residents were mostly White (90%) or women (66%), and 48% were older than 85 years.From Jan 1 to Aug 11, 2020, the all-cause mortality rate was an average of 2.30 deaths per 1,000 residents