This is figure is from a paper just submitted to CMAJ, but I think it& #39;s important for people to see this.

The green curve is incidence of death in LTC by date in Ontario, the pink is death in community living elderly (age > 69). Shaded areas are confidence imits.

Death risk is taking off like a rocket in those in LTCF.
Here& #39;s another figure:

That& #39;s relative risk of resident death as a function of infections in residents (green) or staff (red), at lags of 0-7 days. You can see that infected staff are predictive of resident deaths...infected residents aren& #39;t.

This is indirect evidence that we need to focus on staff (testing, PPE, assignment to a single facility) to protect these vulnerable residents.

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