Study: Nursing homes with predominant minority populations bore bigger COVID impactsAn analysis of data from 211 Connecticut nursing homes found that facilities that cared for mainly racial and ethnic minority residents had higher levels of COVID-19 illnesses and deaths.
A team based at the University of Rochester in New York reported their findings today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.The 10-week time span they focused on was Apr 12, 2020, to Jun 19, 2020.
Authors noted that Connecticut is one of the few states that kept weekly counts of COVID cases and deaths back to April 2020.
In addition to state department data on nursing home cases and deaths, they also used Brown University data on nursing home characteristics to