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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Our county offers covid fatality data broken down by those who live(d) in nursing homes and those who did not.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It looked for a while as if the homers would exceed the non-homers, but then they diverged. Now they may be converging once again.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If anyone here can look at this and extract some kind of signal or signal, even an arm-wavey descriptive one, do post please.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In Santa Clara county, the nursing home population is about 5 percent of the total. To me the signal is clear enough: if one is going to a nursing home for increased safety, don’t do it. Take your chances with the risk of a fall at home, get one of those emergency beacon things that hangs around your neck, get Meals on Wheels, rather than being part of 5 percent of the population which accounts for nearly half the covid fatalities.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t know of other counties reporting this way, but if it works this way in Santa Clara I don’t see why it would be different elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=916 height=690 style='width:9.5416in;height:7.1875in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D6AF97.C3A4FAA0"><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>