The “Nursing Home Covid-19 Data Dashboard” maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that COVID-19 had an unusually intense impact on the long term care community. Cases among nursing home residents first peaked during the end of December 2020, at a rate of 31 cases per 1,000 residents, and then took a steady decline for several months. Cases started to rise again in the summer of 2021, and then peaked again in the winter of 2021-2022, this time at a rate of 43.5 cases per 1,000 residents, before settling into a range not exceeding 17 cases per 1,000 residents for nearly a year. The Covid-19 death rate peaked near the end of December 2020, at a rate of 5.5 deaths per 1,000 residents, but as with cases, deaths soon started to decline, and have not exceeded a rate of 0.3 deaths per 1,000 residents for almost a year (since February 2022).
