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Mass. nursing homes should be subject of ‘excess deaths’ COVID study

Por: The Boston Globe Opinion May 16, 2023

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Anna Kuchment’s May 11 Metro article () valuably explains the concept of “excess deaths,” or the number of people who die over and above normal rates.The astonishingly high mortality rate of residents of our nursing facilities suggests that a great deal went wrong in many of those 363 homes. About a fourth of all Massachusetts COVID deaths occurred there.With so many grieving families, the Globe should seek the same kind of data Kuchment... + full article



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