Factors Associated With COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Long-Term Care Facilities: Findings from a Literature Review

Issue Brief
  1. Rebecca Gorges, “Staffing Levels and COVID-19 Cases and Outbreaks in U.S Nursing Homes,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68 no. 11 (November 2020): 2462-2466, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16787

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  2. Margaret M. Sugg, Trent J. Spaulding, Sandi J. Lane et al, “Mapping community-level determinants of COVID-19 transmission in nursing homes: A multi-scale approach,” Science of the Total Environment 752, no. 15 (January 2021):141946,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141946

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  3. Helena Temkin-Greener, Wenhan Guo, Yunjiao Mao, Xueya Cai, and Yue Li, “COVID‐19 Pandemic in Assisted Living Communities: Results from Seven States,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 12 (December 2020): 2727-2734, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16850

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  4. Elizabeth M. White, Cyrus M. Kosar, Richard A.Feifer et al., “Variation in SARS‐CoV‐2 Prevalence in U.S. Skilled Nursing Facilities,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 10 (October 2020): 2167-2173, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16752

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  5. Priya Chidambaram, Rising Cases in Long-term Care Facilities Are Cause for Concern (Washington, DC: Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2020), https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/rising-cases-in-long-term-care-facilities-are-cause-for-concern/

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  6. Paul Chatterjee, Sheila Kelly, Mingyu Qi, and Rachel Werner, “Characteristics and Quality of US Nursing Homes Reporting Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19),” JAMA Network Open 3, no. 7 (July 2020): e2016930, doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.16930

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  7. Patricia Rowan, Reena Gupta, Rebecca Lester et al., A Study of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Response in Connecticut Long-Term Care Facilities (Princeton, NJ: Mathematica, Inc., September 2020), https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/fr-a-study-of-the-covid-19-outbreak-and-response-in-connecticut-long-term-care-facilities

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  8. Craig Richmond, Arick Sabin, "SARS-CoV-2 sequencing reveals rapid transmission from college student clusters resulting in morbidity and deaths in vulnerable populations" MedRxiv (October 2020), https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.12.20210294

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  9. [9] David P. Bui, Isaac See, Elisabeth M. Hesse et al., “Association Between CMS Quality Ratings and COVID-19 Outbreaks in Nursing Homes - West Virginia, March 17-June 11, 2020,” MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 69 no. 37 (September 2020): 1300–1304. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6937a5

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  10. Patricia Rowan, Reena Gupta, Rebecca Lester et al., A Study of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Response in Connecticut Long-Term Care Facilities (Princeton, NJ: Mathematica, Inc., September 2020), https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/fr-a-study-of-the-covid-19-outbreak-and-response-in-connecticut-long-term-care-facilities

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  11. New York State Department of Health, Factors Associated with Nursing Home Infections and Fatalities in New York State During the COVID-19 Global Health Crisis, (New York, NY: New York State Department of Health, July 2020), https://www.health.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/docs/nh_factors_report.pdf

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  12. M Keith Chen, Judith A. Chevalier, and Elisa F. Long, Nursing Home Staff Networks and COVID-19, (National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper Series no. 27608, July 2020), https://www.nber.org/papers/w27608

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  13. Sandra M. Shi, Innokentiy Bakaev, Helen Chen, Thomas G. Travison, and Sarah D. Berry, "Risk Factors, Presentation, and Course of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in a Large, Academic Long-Term Care Facility"  JAMDA, 21 no.10 (August 2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.08.027

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  14. New York State Department of Health, Factors Associated with Nursing Home Infections and Fatalities in New York State During the COVID-19 Global Health Crisis (New York, NY: New York State Department of Health, July 2020), https://www.health.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/docs/nh_factors_report.pdf

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  15. Center for Health and Research Transformation, Keeping nursing home residents safe and advancing health in light of COVID-19 (Center for Health and Research Transformation, September 2020), https://chrt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KeepingNursingHomeResidentsSafe_SummaryReport_9-8-2020.pdf

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  16. Bigelow BF, Tang O, Toci GR, et al., “Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Involving Residents Receiving Dialysis in a Nursing Home — Maryland, April 2020,” MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly 69 no. 32 (August 2020): 1089-1094, http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6932e4

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  17. Hannah R. Abrams, Lacey Loomer, Ashvin Gandhi, and David Grabowski, “Characteristics of U.S. Nursing Homes with COVID‐19 Cases,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no 8 (August 2020): 1653-1656, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16661

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  18. Paul Chatterjee, Sheila Kelly, Mingyu Qi, and Rachel Werner, “Characteristics and Quality of US Nursing Homes Reporting Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19),” JAMA Network Open 3, no. 7 (July 2020): e2016930, doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.16930

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  19. Margaret M. Sugg, Trent J. Spaulding, Sandi J. Lane et al, “Mapping community-level determinants of COVID-19 transmission in nursing homes: A multi-scale approach,” Science of the Total Environment 752, no. 15 (January 2021):141946,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141946

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  20. Jose F. Figueroa, Rishi K. Wadhera, Irene Papanicolas et al., “Association of Nursing Home Ratings on Health Inspections, Quality of Care, and Nurse Staffing With COVID-19 Cases,” JAMA 324, no. 11 (August 2020): 1103-1105, doi:10.1001/jama.2020.14709

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  21. M Keith Chen, Judith A. Chevalier, and Elisa F. Long, Nursing Home Staff Networks and COVID-19, (National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper Series no. 27608, July 2020), https://www.nber.org/papers/w27608

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  22. Elizabeth M. White, Cyrus M. Kosar, Richard A.Feifer et al., “Variation in SARS‐CoV‐2 Prevalence in U.S. Skilled Nursing Facilities,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 10 (October 2020): 2167-2173, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16752

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  23. Patricia Rowan, Reena Gupta, Rebecca Lester et al., A Study of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Response in Connecticut Long-Term Care Facilities (Princeton, NJ: Mathematica, Inc., September 2020), https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/fr-a-study-of-the-covid-19-outbreak-and-response-in-connecticut-long-term-care-facilities

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  24. New York State Department of Health, Factors Associated with Nursing Home Infections and Fatalities in New York State During the COVID-19 Global Health Crisis (New York, NY: New York State Department of Health, July 2020), https://www.health.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/docs/nh_factors_report.pdf

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  25. David P. Bui, Isaac See, Elisabeth M. Hesse et al., “Association Between CMS Quality Ratings and COVID-19 Outbreaks in Nursing Homes - West Virginia, March 17-June 11, 2020,” MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 69 no. 37 (September 2020): 1300–1304. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6937a5

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  26. Jordan Rau and Anna Almendrala, “COVID-Plagued California Nursing Homes Often Had Problems in Past,” Kaiser Health News (May 2020), https://kffhealthnews.org/news/covid-plagued-california-nursing-homes-often-had-problems-in-past/

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  27. Yue Li, Helena Temkin‐Greener, Gao Shan, and Xueya Cai, “COVID‐19 Infections and Deaths among Connecticut Nursing Home Residents: Facility Correlates,” Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 68 no. 9 (September 2020): 1899-1906, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16689

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  28. Mengying He, Yumeng Li, and Fang Fang, “Is There a Link between Nursing Home Reported Quality and COVID-19 Cases? Evidence from California Skilled Nursing Facilities,” Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 21, no. 7 (July 2020): 905–908, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.06.016

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  29. Margaret M. Sugg, Trent J. Spaulding, Sandi J. Lane et al, “Mapping community-level determinants of COVID-19 transmission in nursing homes: A multi-scale approach,” Science of the Total Environment 752, no. 15 (January 2021):141946,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141946

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  30. Hannah R. Abrams, Lacey Loomer, Ashvin Gandhi, and David Grabowski, “Characteristics of U.S. Nursing Homes with COVID‐19 Cases,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 8 (August 2020): 1653-1656, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16661

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  31. Elizabeth M. White, Cyrus M. Kosar, Richard A.Feifer et al., “Variation in SARS‐CoV‐2 Prevalence in U.S. Skilled Nursing Facilities,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 10 (October 2020): 2167-2173, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16752

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  32. Sandra M. Shi, Innokentiy Bakaev, Helen Chen, Thomas G. Travison, and Sarah D. Berry, "Risk Factors, Presentation, and Course of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in a Large, Academic Long-Term Care Facility"  JAMDA, 21 no.10 (August 2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.08.027

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  33. Jordan Rau and Anna Almendrala, “COVID-Plagued California Nursing Homes Often Had Problems in Past,” Kaiser Health News (May 2020), https://kffhealthnews.org/news/covid-plagued-california-nursing-homes-often-had-problems-in-past/

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  34. Charlene Harrington, Leslie Ross, Susan Chapman, et al., “Nurse Staffing and Coronavirus Infections in California Nursing Homes.” Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice 21, no. 3 (August 2020): 174–86, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1527154420938707

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  35. Paul Chatterjee, Sheila Kelly, Mingyu Qi, and Rachel Werner, “Characteristics and Quality of US Nursing Homes Reporting Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19),” JAMA Network Open 3, no. 7 (July 2020): e2016930, doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.16930

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  36. Bruce Spurlock, Alex Stack, Charlene Harrington, COVID-19 in California’s Nursing Homes: Factors Associated with Cases and Deaths (California Health Care Foundation, December 2020), https://www.chcf.org/publication/covid-19-californias-nursing-homes-factors-cases-deaths/#recommendations

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  37. Jose F. Figueroa, Rishi K. Wadhera, Irene Papanicolas et al., “Association of Nursing Home Ratings on Health Inspections, Quality of Care, and Nurse Staffing With COVID-19 Cases,” JAMA 324, no. 11 (August 2020): 1103-1105, doi:10.1001/jama.2020.14709

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  38. Patricia Rowan, Reena Gupta, Rebecca Lester et al., A Study of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Response in Connecticut Long-Term Care Facilities (Princeton, NJ: Mathematica, Inc., September 2020), https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/fr-a-study-of-the-covid-19-outbreak-and-response-in-connecticut-long-term-care-facilities

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  39. Charlene Harrington, Leslie Ross, Susan Chapman, et al., “Nurse Staffing and Coronavirus Infections in California Nursing Homes.” Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice 21, no. 3 (August 2020): 174–86, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1527154420938707

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  40. Rebecca Gorges, “Staffing Levels and COVID-19 Cases and Outbreaks in U.S Nursing Homes,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68 no. 11 (November 2020): 2462-2466, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16787

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  41. Margaret M. Sugg, Trent J. Spaulding, Sandi J. Lane et al, “Mapping community-level determinants of COVID-19 transmission in nursing homes: A multi-scale approach,” Science of the Total Environment 752, no. 15 (January 2021):141946,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141946

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  42. Bruce Spurlock, Alex Stack, Charlene Harrington, COVID-19 in California’s Nursing Homes: Factors Associated with Cases and Deaths ( California Health Care Foundation, December 2020), https://www.chcf.org/publication/covid-19-californias-nursing-homes-factors-cases-deaths/#recommendations

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  43. Rebecca Gorges, “Staffing Levels and COVID-19 Cases and Outbreaks in U.S Nursing Homes,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68 no. 11 (November 2020): 2462-2466, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16787

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  44. Margaret M. Sugg, Trent J. Spaulding, Sandi J. Lane et al, “Mapping community-level determinants of COVID-19 transmission in nursing homes: A multi-scale approach,” Science of the Total Environment 752, no. 15 (January 2021):141946,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141946

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  45. Charlene Harrington, Leslie Ross, Susan Chapman, et al., “Nurse Staffing and Coronavirus Infections in California Nursing Homes.” Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice 21, no. 3 (August 2020): 174–86, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1527154420938707

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  46. Yue Li, Helena Temkin‐Greener, Gao Shan, and Xueya Cai, “COVID‐19 Infections and Deaths among Connecticut Nursing Home Residents: Facility Correlates,” Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 68 no. 9 (September 2020): 1899-1906, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16689

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  47. Rebecca Gorges, “Staffing Levels and COVID-19 Cases and Outbreaks in U.S Nursing Homes,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68 no. 11 (November 2020): 2462-2466, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16787

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  48. Margaret M. Sugg, Trent J. Spaulding, Sandi J. Lane et al, “Mapping community-level determinants of COVID-19 transmission in nursing homes: A multi-scale approach,” Science of the Total Environment 752, no. 15 (January 2021):141946,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141946

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  49. Priya Chidambaram, Rising Cases in Long-term Care Facilities Are Cause for Concern (Washington, DC: Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2020), https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/rising-cases-in-long-term-care-facilities-are-cause-for-concern/

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  50. Brian E. McGarry, David C. Grabowski, and Michael L. Barnett, “Severe Staffing And Personal Protective Equipment Shortages Faced By Nursing Homes During The COVID-19 Pandemic” Health Affairs 39, no. 10 (August 2020), https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01269

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  51. Huiwen Xu, Orna Intrator, John R. Bowblis “Shortages of Staff in Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What are the Driving Factors?” Journal of the American Medical Directors 21, no. 10 (October 2020): 1371-1377, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.08.002

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  52. Diane Gibson and Jessica Greene, “State Actions and Shortages of PPE and Staff in U.S Nursing Homes” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 12 (October 2020): 2721: 2726, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16883

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  53. Diane Gibson and Jessica Greene, “State Actions and Shortages of PPE and Staff in U.S Nursing Homes” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 12 (October 2020): 2721: 2726, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16883

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  54. Brian E. McGarry, David C. Grabowski, and Michael L. Barnett, “Severe Staffing And Personal Protective Equipment Shortages Faced By Nursing Homes During The COVID-19 Pandemic” Health Affairs 39, no. 10 (August 2020), https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01269

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  55. Huiwen Xu, Orna Intrator, John R. Bowblis “Shortages of Staff in Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What are the Driving Factors?” Journal of the American Medical Directors 21, no. 10 (October 2020): 1371-1377, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.08.002

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  56. Brian E. McGarry, David C. Grabowski, and Michael L. Barnett, “Severe Staffing And Personal Protective Equipment Shortages Faced By Nursing Homes During The COVID-19 Pandemic” Health Affairs 39, no. 10 (August 2020), https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01269

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  57. Robert Tyler Braun, Hyunkyung Yun, Lawrence P. Casalino et al., “Comparative Performance of Private Equity–Owned US Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” JAMA Network Open 3, no 10 (October 2020): e2026702, doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.26702

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  58. Diane Gibson and Jessica Greene, “State Actions and Shortages of PPE and Staff in U.S Nursing Homes” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 12 (October 2020): 2721: 2726, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16883

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  59. Brian E. McGarry, David C. Grabowski, and Michael L. Barnett, “Severe Staffing And Personal Protective Equipment Shortages Faced By Nursing Homes During The COVID-19 Pandemic” Health Affairs 39, no. 10 (August 2020), https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01269

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  60. Diane Gibson and Jessica Greene, “State Actions and Shortages of PPE and Staff in U.S Nursing Homes” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 12 (October 2020): 2721: 2726, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16883

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  61. Huiwen Xu, Orna Intrator, John R. Bowblis “Shortages of Staff in Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What are the Driving Factors?” Journal of the American Medical Directors 21, no. 10 (October 2020): 1371-1377,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.08.002

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  62. Hannah R. Abrams, Lacey Loomer, Ashvin Gandhi, and David Grabowski, “Characteristics of U.S. Nursing Homes with COVID‐19 Cases,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 8 (August 2020): 1653-1656, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16661

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  63. Paul Chatterjee, Sheila Kelly, Mingyu Qi, and Rachel Werner, “Characteristics and Quality of US Nursing Homes Reporting Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19),” JAMA Network Open 3, no. 7 (July 2020): e2016930, doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.16930

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  64. Helena Temkin-Greener, Wenhan Guo, Yunjiao Mao, Xueya Cai, and Yue Li, “COVID‐19 Pandemic in Assisted Living Communities: Results from Seven States,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 12 (December 2020): 2727-2734, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16850

     

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  65. Robert Tyler Braun, Hyunkyung Yun, Lawrence P. Casalino et al., “Comparative Performance of Private Equity–Owned US Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” JAMA Network Open 3, no. 10 (October 2020): e2026702, doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.26702

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  66. Mengying He, Yumeng Li, and Fang Fang, “Is There a Link between Nursing Home Reported Quality and COVID-19 Cases? Evidence from California Skilled Nursing Facilities,” Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 21, no. 7 (July 2020): 905–908, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.06.016

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  67. Elizabeth M. White, Cyrus M. Kosar, Richard A.Feifer et al.,, “Variation in SARS‐CoV‐2 Prevalence in U.S. Skilled Nursing Facilities,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 10 (October 2020): 2167-2173, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16752

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  68. Mark Aaron Unruh, Hyunkyung Yun, Yongkang Zhang, et al., “ Nursing Home Characteristics Associated With COVID-19 Deaths in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York,” Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 21 no. 7 (July 2020): 1001–1003, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.06.019

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  69. Adam Dean, Atheendar Venkataramani, and Simeon Kimmel, “Mortality Rates From COVID-19 Are Lower In Unionized Nursing Homes,” Health Affairs, 39 no.11 (September 2020): https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01011

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  70. Charlene Harrington, Leslie Ross, Susan Chapman, et al., “Nurse Staffing and Coronavirus Infections in California Nursing Homes.” Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice 21, no. 3 (August 2020): 174–86, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1527154420938707

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  71. Yue Li, Helena Temkin‐Greener, Gao Shan, and Xueya Cai, “COVID‐19 Infections and Deaths among Connecticut Nursing Home Residents: Facility Correlates,” Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 68 no. 9 (September 2020): 1899-1906, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16689

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  73. Patricia Rowan, Reena Gupta, Rebecca Lester et al., A Study of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Response in Connecticut Long-Term Care Facilities (Princeton, NJ: Mathematica, Inc., September 2020), https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/fr-a-study-of-the-covid-19-outbreak-and-response-in-connecticut-long-term-care-facilities

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  75. Margaret M. Sugg, Trent J. Spaulding, Sandi J. Lane et al, “Mapping community-level determinants of COVID-19 transmission in nursing homes: A multi-scale approach,” Science of the Total Environment 752, no. 15 (January 2021):141946,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141946

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  76. Priya Chidambaram, Tricia Neuman, and Rachel Garfield, Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Nursing Homes (Washington, DC: Kaiser Family Foundation, October 2020), https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-cases-and-deaths-in-nursing-homes/

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  77. The New York Times, “The Striking Racial Divide in How Covid-19 Has Hit Nursing Homes”, The New York Times (September 2020), https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-nursing-homes-racial-disparity.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=US%20News

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  78. Yue Li, Xi Cen, Xueya Cai, and Helena Temkin-Greener, “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID‐19 Infections and Deaths Across U.S. Nursing Homes,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 11 (November 2020): 2454-2461, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16847

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  79. Paul Chatterjee, Sheila Kelly, Mingyu Qi, and Rachel Werner, “Characteristics and Quality of US Nursing Homes Reporting Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19),” JAMA Network Open 3, no. 7 (July 2020): e2016930, doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.16930

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  80. Mengying He, Yumeng Li, and Fang Fang, “Is There a Link between Nursing Home Reported Quality and COVID-19 Cases? Evidence from California Skilled Nursing Facilities,” Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 21, no. 7 (July 2020): 905–908, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.06.016

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  81. Mark Aaron Unruh, Hyunkyung Yun, Yongkang Zhang, et al., “ Nursing Home Characteristics Associated With COVID-19 Deaths in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York,” Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 21 no. 7 (July 2020): 1001–1003, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.06.019

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  82. M Keith Chen, Judith A. Chevalier, and Elisa F. Long, Nursing Home Staff Networks and COVID-19, (National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper Series no. 27608, July 2020), https://www.nber.org/papers/w27608

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  83. Patricia Rowan, Reena Gupta, Rebecca Lester et al., A Study of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Response in Connecticut Long-Term Care Facilities (Princeton, NJ: Mathematica, Inc., September 2020), https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/fr-a-study-of-the-covid-19-outbreak-and-response-in-connecticut-long-term-care-facilities

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  84. Bruce Spurlock, Alex Stack, Charlene Harrington, COVID-19 in California’s Nursing Homes: Factors Associated with Cases and Deaths ( California Health Care Foundation, December 2020), https://www.chcf.org/publication/covid-19-californias-nursing-homes-factors-cases-deaths/#recommendations

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  85. Robert Tyler Braun, Hyunkyung Yun, Lawrence P. Casalino et al., “Comparative Performance of Private Equity–Owned US Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” JAMA Network Open 3, no. 10 (October 2020): e2026702, doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.26702

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  86. Patricia Rowan, Reena Gupta, Rebecca Lester et al., A Study of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Response in Connecticut Long-Term Care Facilities (Princeton, NJ: Mathematica, Inc., September 2020), https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/fr-a-study-of-the-covid-19-outbreak-and-response-in-connecticut-long-term-care-facilities

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  87. Hannah R. Abrams, Lacey Loomer, Ashvin Gandhi, and David Grabowski, “Characteristics of U.S. Nursing Homes with COVID‐19 Cases,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 68, no. 8 (August 2020): 1653-1656, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16661

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  88. Adam Dean, Atheendar Venkataramani, and Simeon Kimmel, “Mortality Rates From COVID-19 Are Lower In Unionized Nursing Homes,” Health Affairs, 39 no.11 (September 2020): https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01011

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