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Collected Item: “Overlooked and Undercounted: The Growing Impact of COVID-19 on Assisted Living Facilities”

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Overlooked and Undercounted: The Growing Impact of COVID-19 on Assisted Living Facilities

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news article

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While most states report the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in nursing homes, the number of cases and deaths in assisted living facilities are usually either lumped together with nursing homes or ignored. This not only causes gaps in case data but also leads to the needs of assisted living facilities being ignored.

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elderly, assisted living, COVID-19, case counting, HSE

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https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/overlooked-and-undercounted-the-growing-impact-of-covid-19-on-assisted-living-facilities/

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Sarah True, Nancy Ochieng, Juliette Cubanski, Priya Chidambaram, Tricia Neuman

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2020-09-01
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