I linked to another nursing home article a few days ago, that said containment within the homes was a major problem early on in the learning curve, and that is how it "fueled" the pandemic.
Yes, in the early days it was a problem. As I said, in Seattle especially.
Every day we learn more, and just fixing this one weak link with the nursing homes alone should go a long ways towards getting the numbers down.
Nope. Only in the first weeks. After March it was no longer a factor. Improving the situation in nursing homes will get the numbers down in nursing homes, but not elsewhere. Outside the homes, there will still be thousands of new cases per day from other sources.
More than 22,000 care home residents in England and Wales may have died as a direct or indirect result of Covid-19, academics have calculated – more than double the number stated as passing away from the disease in official figures.
That's terrible. I think it is similar in the U.S. But I do not think these care home residents are infecting the population outside the homes. They are not in Japan, according to the case trackers. Except in a few incidents.