Declining COVID-19 Mortality Rates Among Nursing Home Residents

March 11, 2021

A paper presenting the results on changes in thirty-day mortality rates between March and November 2020 among 12,271 nursing home residents with COVID-19. Investigators found that adjusted mortality rates significantly declined from a high of 20.9 percent in early April to 11.2 percent in early November. Mortality risk declined for residents with both symptomatic and asymptomatic infections and for residents with both high and low clinical complexity. The mechanisms driving these trends are not entirely understood, but they may include improved clinical management within nursing homes, improved personal protective equipment supply and use, and genetic changes in the virus. Read the full article here.