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One other data point I assume is available - but haven't seen published (barring an estimate many months ago):  the number of patients who contract Covid at the hospital.  Presumably this number is small - but it's not zero.  Indeed, my Donner roommate's mom went into a hospital for hip surgery and contracted Covid there.  Needless to say, that's not good.

On Sep 16, the WSJ indicated an average of 120 cases a day of COVID were acquired in US hospitals (according to unpublished federal data).
The BBC just published something about cases acquired in the hospital in Scotland.

Essentially 100% of the patient cases of COVID-19 in Long Term Care Facilities are caught there.  As I understand it, families are not allowed at the facilities.   (I don't like the numbers I see at SCC right now. 14 facilities have had patient cases in last 14 days.  12 of those facilities claim no staff cases have been found in the last 14 days.  3 of those 12 claim no staff cases in the last 28 days.)


I have a brother-in-law in the hospital right now in a county with something like 3x the new case rate of SCC.  He required hospitalization so there was no choice (he went to ER earlier in the week & they sent him home, but he went downhill).  They want to send him to rehab (for a leg problem) but I am of the opinion that he be sent home unless he requires IV or monitoring available in a rehab facility that isn't available at home. (His mother died of C-Diff acquired in a rehab facility.)      The ER, the hospital, and the rehab facility won't let his spouse be there. 

 (HINT: If someone might go to such a facility, make sure they have a phone they can put on speaker mode while the doctor is in the room, so information is accurately shared with the family.)

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One other data point I assume is available - but haven't seen published (barring an estimate many months ago):  the number of patients who contract Covid at the hospital.  Presumably this number is small - but it's not zero.  Indeed, my Donner roommate's mom went into a hospital for hip surgery and contracted Covid there.  Needless to say, that's not good.

On Sep 16, the WSJ indicated an average of 120 cases a day of COVID were acquired in US hospitals (according to unpublished federal data).
The BBC just published something about cases acquired in the hospital in Scotland.

Essentially 100% of the patient cases of COVID-19 in Long Term Care Facilities are caught there.  As I understand it, families are not allowed at the facilities.   (I don't like the numbers I see at SCC right now. 14 facilities have had patient cases in last 14 days.  12 of those facilities claim no staff cases have been found in the last 14 days.  3 of those 12 claim no staff cases in the last 28 days.)


I have a brother-in-law in the hospital right now in a county with something like 3x the new case rate of SCC.  He required hospitalization so there was no choice (he went to ER earlier in the week & they sent him home, but he went downhill).  They want to send him to rehab (for a leg problem) but I am of the opinion that he be sent home unless he requires IV or monitoring available in a rehab facility that isn't available at home. (His mother died of C-Diff acquired in a rehab facility.)      The ER, the hospital, and the rehab facility won't let his spouse be there. 

 (HINT: If someone might go to such a facility, make sure they have a phone they can put on speaker mode while the doctor is in the room, so information is accurately shared with the family.)