COVID-19 PODCAST: 34 residents of a single skilled nursing facility die from COVID-19.

Dr. Cameron feels that the best way to get to know COVID-19 is through reviewing actual cases. In this Podcast episode, he will be discussing a 73-year-old resident of a skilled nursing facility who died from COVID-19.

McMichael and colleagues discussed this case in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.

As of March 18, 2020, there were 101 residents of the skilled nursing facility with a confirmed case of COVID-19.

As of March 18, the preliminary case fatality rate for the skilled care residents was 33.7% for residents and 6.2% for visitors wrote the authors.

The authors described a list of factors identified by the authors that could have contributed to the cluster of COVID-19 cases.

The authors also described a list of steps to prevent another cluster of  COVID-19 in a skilled nursing facility.

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Dr. Cameron is a Lyme disease expert and the author “Inside Lyme: An expert’s guide to the science of Lyme disease.” He has been treating adolescents and adults for more than 30 years.

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