BY SUSAN JAFFE | CONNECTICUT HEALTH INVESTIGATIVE TEAM | JUNE 15,2020 
The coronavirus has decimated many of the nation’s nursing homes, and elderly, chronically ill residents of these facilities account for 64% of the state’s 4,201 death toll. They are roughly 100 times more likely to die of the virus than other people in the state.
So, the fact that some 41 of Connecticut’s 214 nursing homes have managed to keep out the virus, according to an analysis by C-HIT, is both remarkable and mystifying. Did they just get lucky?
This article also ran on Connecticut Public Radio.
Administrators at several COVID-19-free facilities use the word “fortunate” to describe a situation they acknowledge could change at any time. [Continued here, with map and table of COVID-19 free nursing homes.]
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