Morale returns to nursing homes after COVID-19 cases drop more than 80 percent
and last updated 2021-04-15 14:43:24-04
Nursing homes were one of the first places to feel COVID-19âs wrath, but now, they are one of the first places to feel the positive effects of the vaccine.
Cases in nursing homes across the country have dropped tremendously over the last few months after peaking the week of December 20, 2020
, when there were more than 30,000 new cases, according to data from the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living.
Between December 20, 2020
, and February 14, 2021
, the organizations say COVID-19 cases among nursing home staff fell 83 percent, from 28,802 to 4,746. New COVID-19 infections among residents fell even more, going from 89 percent to 58 percent in the general public.
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IMAGE: A desert bighorn sheep ewe (left) and ram are observed in the Providence Mountains in the Mojave Desert in California. view more
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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Desert bighorn sheep in the Mojave National Preserve in California and surrounding areas appear to be more resilient than previously thought to a respiratory disease that killed dozens of them and sickened many more in 2013, a new study has found.
Clint Epps, a wildlife biologist at Oregon State University, and several co-authors, found that exposure to one of the bacteria associated with the disease is more widespread among bighorn sheep populations in the Mojave, and that its presence dates further back, than scientists thought. But they also found that the overall number of infected bighorn has declined since 2013 in the populations surveyed.
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A desert bighorn sheep ewe (left) and ram are observed in the Providence Mountains in the Mojave Desert in California They re more resilient to a respiratory disease than first thought, according to researchers.
Feb 03, 2021
Desert bighorn sheep in the Mojave National Preserve in California and surrounding areas appear to be more resilient than previously thought to a respiratory disease that killed dozens of them and sickened many more in 2013, a new study has found.
Clint Epps, a wildlife biologist at Oregon State University, and several co-authors, found that exposure to one of the bacteria associated with the disease is more widespread among bighorn sheep populations in the Mojave, and that its presence dates further back, than scientists thought. But they also found that the overall number of infected bighorn has declined since 2013 in the populations surveyed.