Abstract
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing home (NH) residents has highlighted the long-standing systemic deficiencies in and need for effective infection prevention and control (IPC) practices. Residents typically have multiple conditions that increase their risk of infection, including chronic diseases, incontinence, fragile skin, malnutrition, dehydration, and depressed immune systems.1 As of October 17, 2021, there have been a total of 138,587 nursing home resident deaths,2 with some 16,000 deaths likely having gone unreported in the early stages of the pandemic.
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