Vanessa Davey, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca 29th March 2020 The pace of expansion of the COVID-19 epidemic in Spain has been very fast. Comparative… Read More »Report: the COVID19 crisis in care homes in Spain: recipe for a perfect storm
Adelina Comas-Herrera and Jose-Luis Fernandez-Plotka (CPEC, LSE) 29th March 2020 Presentation that summarises key measures to prevent and control COVID19 outbreaks in care homes, and… Read More »Key measures to prevent and control COVID19 outbreaks in care homes and support continuity of care
In an attempt to shield care home residents from infection, 150 care home residents without symptoms are being moved into hotel accommodation in Barcelona. So… Read More »Report from Spain: Moving care home residents to hotels in Barcelona to reduce risk of COVID-19 contagion
Adelina Comas-Herrera (CPEC) There is a growing number of examples of “strike teams” or “rapid response teams” being sent to care homes that become overwhelmed,… Read More »Tackling COVID-19 outbreaks and staff shortages in care homes: deploying rapid response teams
Summary of a Morbidity and Mortality report by Kimball et al (see citation and link below). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US) tested… Read More »Article summary: symptom-based screening in Skilled Nursing Facilities could fail to identify half of residents with COVID19
Article by Barnett and Grabowski as an Insight in JAMA highlighting the vulnerability of nursing homes to infection. It reports on the initial infection in… Read More »Article summary: Nursing homes are Ground Zero for COVID-19 epidemic (by ML Barnett and DC Grabowski)
As reported in a previous post about the situation in care homes in Madrid, triage protocols used by hospitals mean that care home staff find… Read More »When the ambulances don’t turn up: implications of the COVID-19 hospital triage protocols for nursing homes in Madrid
By Adelina Comas-Herrera (CPEC) As disturbing news emerge about the collapse of nursing homes in Spain due to COVID-19, where the army entered to find… Read More »COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths in residential and nursing homes: lessons learnt from Spain, Italy and the US
By Francesco D’Amico (CPEC), 22nd March In Italy, so far, most of the COVID-19 contagion is spreading in some provinces of the Lombardy region, notably… Read More »Report from Italy: Nursing homes in the frontline of COVID-19
