Abstract

Nursing home staff and administrators are exhausted, overwhelmed, and ready for a break. Many have wondered if we will continue to see the devastation and tragedy of the early COVID-19 waves in nursing homes as each new variant emerges. A prospective cohort study published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity by Maria Krutikov and colleagues1 suggests that this might not be the case. The Article describes differences in hospital admissions and death during the delta versus omicron waves in nursing home residents enrolled in the VIVALDI cohort (ISRCTN 14447421) and suggests less risk of severe outcomes with the omicron variant.

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