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The Beacon says: “A full breakdown of cases and deaths at nursing homes across the state is available on the Department of Health’s COVID-19 data portal.”
The Beacon article omits the data portal URL (thank you, the one for arts is shown), but I assume this is it: https://ri-department-of-health-covid-19-data-rihealth.hub.arcgis.com/ (has various graphs, and “click here” link to google docs at bottom)
There is a list of nursing facilities vs cases and fatalities shown, but this is bookkeeping, not science. Nursing homes (congregate care) are the kind of outlier that deserves special attention, but not getting it, except maybe lip service. Nursing homes consistently make up most (purportedly > %75) of all fatalities. The data portal shows no indication of any analysis of this phenomenon. Not even a graph of nursing homes vs everyone else is shown, a trend for which there is a clear need to watch very closely.
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