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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 14.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2021 Mar 11;40(4):655–663. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.02191

EXHIBIT 2.

Trends in crude 30-day COVID-19-related mortality and asymptomatic infection rates among residents in a sample of US nursing homes, 2020

Date of diagnosis (2020) No. of
residents
30-day mortality rate (%)
Infections that were
asymptomatic (%)
Asymptomatic Symptomatic Overall

March 16–31 265 9.1 32.2 26.4 24.9

April 1–15 1,756 16.7 25.4 22.8 29.0
April 16–30 2,553 11.4 22.3 17.7 41.8

May 1–15 2,483 12.1 20.9 15.2 64.2
May 16–31 721 7.8 21.5 13.5 58.9

June 1–15 386 7.1 12.8 9.3 61.9
June 16–30 441 6.4 16.5 10.4 60.1

July 1–15 561 5.8 14.8 8.4 71.1
July 16–31 463 7.8 15.6 10.8 61.1

August 1–15 344 5.9 8.5 7.0 58.7
August 16–31 424 8.8 16.2 11.8 59.2

September 1–15 292 8.0 16.4 11.3 60.3
September 16–30 295 8.9 22.0 12.5 72.2

October 1–15 288 9.0 15.4 10.8 73.3
October 16–31 519 10.6 13.2 11.4 69.7

November 1–15 351 9.9 10.2 10.0 69.2

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of resident-level data from 282 nursing homes operated by a large long-term care provider.

NOTE Symptomatic and asymptomatic classifications are described in the Study Data And Methods section.