Table 3.

Hospitalization and mortality rates in nursing home residents receiving care by the GIROT: comparison between first and second wave of the pandemic

	First wave March 1st 2020–April 30th 2020	Second wave October 1st 2020–January 31st 2021
Number of nursing homes	21	43
Number of residents	1159	2448
Mean age (years)	83.9	82.8
Female residents	830 (71.6%)	1728 (70.6%)
Number of COVID-19-positive residents	450	1578
% of COVID-19-positive residents*	38.8%	64.5%
Number of deaths	140	369
Number of residents admitted to hospital	262	160
Hospitalization rate among COVID-19-positive residents†	58.2%	10.1%
Lethality rate among COVID-19-positive residents ‡	31.1%	23.4%

^*Chi2 test (1df): 210.0; p < 0.001

^†Chi2 test (1df): 491.2; p < 0.001

^‡Chi2 test (1df): 11.1; p < 0.001