BY SUSAN JAFFE | CONNECTICUT HEALTH INVESTIGATIVE TEAM | JUNE 15,2020 ![](https://i0.wp.com/susanjaffe.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/C-hit-png-300x36.png?resize=300%2C36)
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.
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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?
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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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