COVID-19 Is Killing More Illinois
Nursing Home Residents Than
Ever, According To State Data
WBEZ [Chicago],
by
Chip Mitchell
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
12/19/2020 9:27:59 AM
COVID-19 case and death numbers in Illinois have been dropping for weeks following a fall surge, but nursing-home residents are contracting the illness and dying from it at their highest reported rates.
State public health regulators have recorded 605 deaths among residents of long-term care facilities, assisted-living centers and other congregate care sites over the past week, according to data posted Friday.
Those fatalities account for nearly two-thirds of the state’s 965 total coronavirus deaths reported over the past week. Friday’s nursing-home death tally also clobbers a record-setting 480 fatalities among residents reported for the week ending Dec. 4. Infections among nursing-home residents are also soaring.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
red1066 12/19/2020 9:35:18 AM (No. 636259)
How many really died of natural causes?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Suzi 12/19/2020 9:44:11 AM (No. 636268)
They may be dying of COVID as an opportunistic infection in an environment of profound distress from isolation, loneliness, lack of comprehensive activity programs, seeing masked faces and not a single smile for months at a time.
Yeah. But COVID is the reason.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/19/2020 9:47:51 AM (No. 636274)
The Dims intentionally seed those facilities with covid to carry out their plans of a termination date for all humans. The former mayor of chicago, rahm never let a good crisis go to waste emanuel, had a brother who is very influential/powerful in things concerning public health who advocates that people should not live beyond - what did he say? - 74.
Of course the johns hopkins study showed that covid reduces deaths from other chronic causes such as heart failure and diabetes etc. that is to say, that deaths were being moved out of the heart failure diabetes etc columns and into the covid column. No doubt much more lucrative.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 12/19/2020 9:51:26 AM (No. 636282)
Hmmm. Medicaid does cover nursing home care in Illinois. Powers-that-be tidying up Illinois Medicaid costs?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
daisey 12/19/2020 10:01:44 AM (No. 636296)
My 97 year old mother passed away late last night. She was in memory care, but was in hospital 2 weeks ago with Covid. She beat the Covid. No markers in blood work. They followed hospital protocol. But what got her was advanced dementia. Hospice told us Covid would be listed as cause of death, even though it was dementia. I asked why. No straight forward response. Covid was not cause of death. Btw, I’m also a nurse.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Cindiana 12/19/2020 10:41:49 AM (No. 636337)
My heartfelt condolences, #5. I hope that you have other family and friends to help navigate this time of incredible sadness and thoughts of "what if", "if only", and "why". I am, like so many others now, helplessly standing on the sidelines as the same fate likely will take my mother. These are unbearable times, and I must sadly confess that I find myself hoping her dementia protects her from the grim reality of how tiny her world has become. Rest, take care of yourself, and may you find many friends here.
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If the doctors are idiots there, as they are here, it is no mystery.
"Stay at home and ride it out without any help from HCQ or Budesonide or Ivermectin to help you. When you get deathly ill, go to the ER, where they will tell you there is nothing they can do, but put you on a vent."
The medical community does not care about their patients at all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are much more concerned about how the CDC, their medical boards and their peers would view them.
Or perhaps they have followed protocol for so long, that they literally cannot think for themselves anymore!
Except for these guys:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mB8kELmSbUE/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgOAaLmoa68&feature=emb_logo
https://frontlinemedicaldoctors.com
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Safari Man 12/19/2020 11:02:11 AM (No. 636371)
More dimocrat voters!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/19/2020 11:15:06 AM (No. 636377)
A decade old close friend suffering long from Parkinson's died in Massachusetts recently. She turned COVID positive 48 hours before passing away. Her death was listed by authorities as COVID caused!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 12/19/2020 12:30:01 PM (No. 636439)
Only in democrat ran states.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/19/2020 12:34:08 PM (No. 636444)
Free nursing home residents. That's what they're trying to do in Cali with prisoners.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 12/19/2020 12:39:46 PM (No. 636453)
So? Pritzker will never need to stay in a nursing home - - because his family conferred filthy wealth upon his worthless butt.
Why should he care what happens in those middle class homes?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Geoman 12/19/2020 12:55:27 PM (No. 636473)
The democrat's final solution architects understand that nursing homes are more likely to have a higher concentration of those who vote conservative than colleges. Besides, they can't take a chance on the elderly actually voting but they can use a dead person's ballot to vote for dems in perpetuity. As far as the risk of getting caught, 2020 has demonstrated that citizens who vote Republican are prone to threaten action but have revealed themselves to be paper tigers. When physically threatened or attacked and when being stripped of the right to have their votes counted Republicans are more likely to water their britches than some 18th century concept of courage and valor in defense of our Constitution and the rights guaranteed within, referred to as "watering the tree of Liberty."
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Foont 12/19/2020 1:39:51 PM (No. 636522)
How can this be? Illinois is among the states with the strictest lockdown rules and mask mandate and yet nursing home deaths are spiking? One would almost have to assume that lockdowns and masks don't do much, if anything at all, to deter the spread of this virus. Especially interesting that when this Wuflu thing got started one of the main points to doing lockdowns, etc. was to protect seniors in these facilities. I guess it's good enough for government work.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
EQKimball 12/19/2020 1:57:22 PM (No. 636537)
The good news is that nationally the cases of seasonal flu are down by 98%. Such an odd coincidence.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mathman 12/19/2020 2:26:00 PM (No. 636556)
Sorry, #7 and #9, COVID deaths are Needed for Biden. So any death will be COVID until further notice. The universal lockdown will be kept in place until everybody agrees that Dems have Pres, Sen, House. Then pressure comes off. Until then, screws remain tight.
Remember: you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. Lots of eggs need to be broken to make this a Socialist Utopia.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
smokincol 12/19/2020 6:20:27 PM (No. 636698)
hey, look, to communists old people are not worth the attention and Illinois is verging on becoming a sub-district of the city of Novgorod, U.S.S.R.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
FLCracker 12/19/2020 6:20:42 PM (No. 636699)
Seems to me these nursing homes are going to go out of business, what will all these extra deaths from COVID, taking out their clientele and potential new ones.
Has anybody asked the undertakers & cemeteries how they are handling the influx in their business?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
4Justice 12/20/2020 2:04:31 AM (No. 636887)
I am starting to think they infected those places on purpose. Old people are not useful to the left. They are a drain on resources they would rather pocket for themselves. And worse, they are a liability in many ways. They still know the truth about our country and how it should be. They know history. They know civics. Many still know God. They are like the old history books before the revisionists took over. Yes, they seeded those places...very likely.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
4Justice 12/20/2020 2:09:56 AM (No. 636889)
#5, I am so sorry for your loss. In Idaho, they did the same thing to my 95 year old father who passed away in August. My sister protested the COVID cause because my father had no symptoms. He actually died of age-related brain shrinkage limiting the blood flow. In other words, he died of old age. He had been declining for years. Despite everything my sister did, she could not get anyone to CORRECT his death certificate. It is disgusting how death is so politicized now.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 12/20/2020 8:27:25 AM (No. 636994)
"Congregate Care" sites? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Sounds almost intentional.
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