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There’s actually a lot of variety in the priority order. Other than healthcare workers the following groups will be prioritized above age 65+ in Massachusetts

1. First responders

2. Nursing home residents

3. Homeless

4. Incarcerated

5. 2+ comorbidities

6. Top priority essential workers

7. Teachers

8. One comorbidity

(Check out your state here https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/health/covid-va...)

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40% of all deaths in the US have been nursing home residents.

I've seen this number around for a long time, but since I never saw a source posted, I don't know if this is still true.

Edit: I found https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/ltc-deaths-pass-1... for December 2, which shows about 100,000 deaths from "long-term care facilities". Not all states report differences between staff and residents dying, but I think it's reasonable to estimate it's mostly residents. On that day they show a total of 265,000 deaths in the USA, so about 37% from LTC.

My mother got her first vaccination shot yesterday. She's in a nursing home in Virginia. She's already had one COVID exposure (luckily she didn't get it), and it's just scary there.

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