The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) recently released a report showing nursing homes in the U.S. could see a third spike of increasing new COVID cases due to the community spread among the general population.
Recent data released by John Hopkins and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) show that with the recent spike in new COVID cases in the general U.S. population, weekly nursing home cases rose in late September for the first time in seven weeks after new cases dropped significantly throughout August and early September.
According to John Hopkins, COVID cases in the general U.S. population rose by 62,139 cases per week in late September correlating with an uptick in nursing home cases during the week of September 27.
For more information on the report visit AHCLANCAL.org/coronavirus.
