[ExI] nursing homes again

[BillK]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 22:50, spike jones via extropy-chat
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> ...It may be too simple, but the nursing home population is old, probably already sick, with a weakened immune system and living indoors, close to other people where transmission is likely.
> So if they get infected, they can't fight it off and die a bit earlier than expected.
> I don't think you need to look for any more complicated explanations?
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> Hi BillK, ja, that part I get, but I was perhaps reaching a bit too far hoping we were approaching herd immunity in the nursing homes.  I see no indication of it, not a trace.  Sigh.
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> I am also looking for any kind of indication of benefit from being outside.  It isn't clear from this data.  Perhaps I am trying too hard to read that in there, because we can all go outside.
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> BillK, are the Brits seeing similar numbers to this with regard to nursing homes?  Are they reporting it by that status?
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I don't think you'll get much herd immunity in nursing homes.
Herd immunity means people get infected and survive, in effect get vaccinated.
In nursing homes, the survivors avoid getting infected in the first place.



BillK