‘The state needs to be all over this’: New federal data shows how COVID-19 is ripping through understaffed Illinois nursing homes – Chicago Tribune

While Illinois officials have struggled to compile such figures, CMS regulators went directly to facilities to collect the information. They also went a step further to assess staffing and equipment needs — something advocates had been asking for.
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Lyn P
5 years ago

Perhaps a major risk factor to the survivability of fragile seniors in homes is the giving of toxic annual flu vax! Studies have shown dangers to the elderly, esp. with multiple vax. Combine that toxicity with the totally unreliable CV test to place blame anyway and you have a scandal run amok. Let’s see the LSM investigate THAT…oh wait no they are funded by pharma. Well, there we are as usual….scammed.

Governor of Alderaan
5 years ago
Reply to  Lyn P

Toxic flu vax? I tried counting the lies in your insane fact-free rant but lost track. An older person is 64 times more likely to die from the flu than a younger person. Flu vaccines have saved countless millions of lives. Vaccines, including the flu vaccine, are the greatest achievement in human history.
 
 

Freddy
5 years ago
Reply to  Lyn P

What is not addressed for seniors in nursing homes and the general population as a whole is the lack of proper nutrient levels. I have stated this many times before. Most of us are low in Vitamin D3-magnesium-omega 3’s-probiotics-b vitamins especially B-12. How many in nursing homes are not on any medications? Probably none. Most are on 5 or 10 different meds. Who knows all the interactions between all those medications. This opens Pandora’s Box to many other illnesses. Many medications deplete vital nutrients like some of the ones I mentioned but are seldom repleted which then leads to more… Read more »

NB-Chicago
5 years ago

Once again, who knows if the idph /afscme-zero shared sacrifice/ allowed to work from home indefinitely/heros are even on the job? Same with ides. The press never asks or files the foias–as the bodies pile up. While apparently disproportionally the deaths in nursing homes are folks of color, those deaths dont fit into the whole systemic racism blm sthick when it come to a total flop on behalf of the state & are underpaid afscme heros…just blame everthing on the cops and throw them under the bus, thats easy, keep the villans & scapegoats simple in the masquerade for a… Read more »

debtsor
5 years ago

Just another scandal in Jabba’s administration. Hopefully one of these puts him in prison.

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