Over 200,000 residents and staff at long-term care facilities have died due to COVID-19 over the course of the pandemic, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of state and federal agency data.
These deaths account for 23% of all recorded COVID-19 deaths in the nation, down from earlier in the pandemic when long-term care facility (LTCF) deaths accounted for nearly half of all deaths across the U.S., the group wrote.
KFF had tallied 187,000 LTCF deaths from March 2020 to June 2021, when states were regularly reporting data on nursing homes, assisted living, group homes and other LTCF deaths.
