The authorities of the state of new York could be wrong in my calculations or deliberately not disclose information on the deaths due to the coronavirus in nursing homes. The withholding of information they are suspected by journalists and experts, writes the Associated Press.
The reason for the discussion of this issue was the discrepancy in figures for similar institutions: according to official data, they have proved to be less dead than actually. It is reported that when the Federal government in may demanded that the number of nursing homes to conduct an independent statistics showed that the local authorities counted for 65 percent fewer deaths.
Although mortality in new York — one of the highest among U.S. cities, the official figure of deaths among residents of nursing homes is quite low — the total is in the state of there are a little over 6.6 thousand, and the percentage is 35th out of 50 American States. According to experts, it is unlikely that this statistic is true, and so, in fact unrecorded were thousands of deaths.
It is noted that for state Governor Andrew Cuomo issue of nursing homes is extremely important: it was criticised for the decision of 25 March, on which convalescents from COVID-19 patients were transferred from hospitals back to care for seniors. It is believed that this could increase the damage of the epidemic, the population groups that are vulnerable to a new type of coronavirus.
According to the Institute Johns Hopkins, new York has to most deaths due to the coronavirus in the United States: 32.7 thousand of 163,4 thousands across the country. On 9 August the number of cases of infection with coronavirus in the United States exceeded 5 million.
