care home deaths

Monitoring and reporting deaths related to COVID-19 in Ireland: up to 54% of deaths due to COVID-19 were nursing home residents

By Maria Pierce, Independent Research and Adjunct Faculty Member, Dublin City University 11th April, 2020 (this post is an updated version of: https://ltccovid.org/2020/04/08/mechanisms-to-collect-data-on-nursing-homes-and-covid-19-in-ireland/) In Ireland,… Read More »Monitoring and reporting deaths related to COVID-19 in Ireland: up to 54% of deaths due to COVID-19 were nursing home residents

Briefing note: Current UK guidance on admission and care of residents during COVID-19 is based on symptomatic cases, ignoring early international evidence and lessons from other countries.

8th April 2020 Adelina Comas-Herrera, CPEC, LSE The current COVID-19 guidance for care homes in the UK was issued on the 2nd of April: (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-admission-and-care-of-people-in-care-homes.… Read More »Briefing note: Current UK guidance on admission and care of residents during COVID-19 is based on symptomatic cases, ignoring early international evidence and lessons from other countries.