Columnist Teri Sforza writes that while overall deaths are way down the group that remains hardest hit is 65 and older.
Over the course of this historic pandemic — from pants-on-fire emergency to slow, steady simmer, from the very first virus to its nth mutation — there has been remarkable consistency in who gets sick and dies:That has remained stunningly steady, with folks over 65 years old accounting for roughly three-quarters of all deaths since the dawn of the pandemic. To wit: In 2020, older folks accounted for 75.4% of deaths. In 2021, they accounted for 73%. In 2022, 71%.
“I’m not surprised to see a high death rate in nursing homes given the age and health status of the occupants. Still, I’m disappointed that we are not doing a better job protecting these individuals,” said Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health’s division of infectious diseases and vaccinology.
Julian Ramirez, who lost his wife Saramaria to COVID-19, shows a collage her coworkers made of her in his Arleta home on Friday, November 20, 2020. Saramaria, 36, caught the coronavirus at the convalescent home where she worked as a nurse, Ramirez said. Still, the proportion of COVID deaths among skilled nursing facility residents has dropped steadily since vaccinations became available, officials said. In the summer of 2020, 58% of COVID deaths were among skilled nursing facility residents. In June, it was 11%.The fact that most COVID deaths are among the elderly is completely in line with expectations, said Andrew Noymer, an epidemiologist and demographer at UC Irvine.
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