Mortality associated with Covid-19 in care homes: early international evidence
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This paper says that in many places deaths to covid-19 that occur in institutional settings outside hospital often are not counted as covid-19 deaths.
> Data from 3 epidemiological studies in the United States show that as many as half of people with COVID-19 infections in care homes were asymptomatic (or pre-symptomatic) at the time of testing
> Data from 5 European countries suggest that care home residents have so far accounted for between 42% and 57% of all deaths related to COVID-19.