Professor, Department of Economics, Farmer School of Business, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA.
Research Fellow, Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA.
J Aging Soc Policy. 2021 Jul-Oct;33(4-5):414-430. doi: 10.1080/08959420.2020.1824542. Epub 2020 Oct 11.
With nursing homes being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to know whether facilities that have any cases, or those with particularly high caseloads, are different from nursing homes that do not have any reported cases. Our analysis found that through mid-June, just under one-third of nursing homes in Ohio had at least one resident with COVID-19, with over 82% of all cases in the state coming from 37% of nursing homes. Overall findings on the association between facility quality and the prevalence of COVID-19 showed that having any resident case of the virus or even having a high caseload of residents with the virus is not more likely in nursing homes with lower quality ratings.
由于养老院受到 COVID-19 疫情的严重冲击，了解是否有任何病例的养老院，或病例特别多的养老院，与没有报告病例的养老院有何不同是很重要的。我们的分析发现，截至 6 月中旬，俄亥俄州只有不到三分之一的养老院至少有一名居民感染了 COVID-19，该州超过 82%的病例来自 37%的养老院。关于设施质量与 COVID-19 流行之间关联的总体调查结果表明，病毒感染居民的病例或病毒感染居民的高病例数，在质量评级较低的养老院中不太可能出现。
