Tag: nursing homes
In Canada, as in the United States, a large share of COVID deaths during the first wave occurred in nursing homes.See Ontario Ministry of Health (2022a) for Ontario and Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec (2022) for Québec. As a result, the pandemic shed light on lax infection control practices and lack of staff…
The share of people in their late 50s with the second most severe form of obesity has tripled since the early 1990s. This grim fact, featured in a recent Squared Away article, clarifies COVID-19’s danger to older Americans. The article, “Our Parents Were Healthier at Ages 54-60,” summarized research establishing that baby boomers are less…
