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Relationship between nursing home COVID-19 outbreaks and staff neighborhood characteristics

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly deadly for residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. This paper analyzes COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes during the first wave of the pandemic in the United States during the spring and early summer 2020. By combining data on facility-level COVID-19 deaths during this period with data on the neighborhoods where nursing home staff reside for a sample of eighteen states, this paper finds that staff neighborhood characteristics were a large and significant predictor of COVID-19 nursing home deaths. Even after controlling for the county where a facility is located, one standard deviation increases in average staff neighborhood (Census tract) population density, public transportation use, and non-white share were associated with 1.3 (p

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  • Karen Shen, 2022. "Relationship between nursing home COVID-19 outbreaks and staff neighborhood characteristics," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(4), pages 1-13, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0267377
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267377
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