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Aug 10 California: Skilled nursing facilities account for 34% of state's Covid deaths

STAFF REPORTS

Zero Californians below age 17 have died due to or in conjunction with Covid-19. Seventy-five percent of all of the state’s Covid deaths involve patients over 65 years old. And 46 percent of those deaths occurred in skilled nursing facilities. Statewide, resident Covid deaths from these facilities account for 34 percent of all California deaths as of August 9, 2020, according to the California Department of Public Health..

A skilled nursing facility is an inpatient center for rehabilitation and therapy, as opposed to a senior center which provides 24/7 residential care for those who can no longer care for themselves.

California currently has 5,636 laboratory-confirmed Covid patients who are hospitalized as of August 8. That’s been trending downward since July 21, when there were 7,170 lab-confirmed Covid patients hospitalized. Daily deaths hit a peak of 210 in California on July 31. Deaths since then have been slightly more than 100 every day, and on August 8 there were 99 Covid-related deaths in California.

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Tatiana Prophet

Tatiana is an award-winning journalist living in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Medill School of Journalism, she started her career in Atlanta in 2001, covering Latino issues and immigration. She spent the next few years as a section editor for Atlanta Business Chronicle. After moving back home to Southern California, Tatiana covered the city of Victorville for the Daily Press and pioneered their nightly web cast. During the early years of the Obama administration, she wrote for China Daily USA as their freelance correspondent for Southern California. Prophet spent four years as a singer-songwriter in Los Angeles, playing the Viper Room Acoustic Lounge as well as the House of Blues Voodoo Lounge, plus regular appearances at TRiP Santa Monica. In 2016, Prophet started Back to Facts, realizing that fake news of all kinds would prove a formidable enemy in the years to come.

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