{"id":4553,"date":"2024-02-08T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2024-02-08T23:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T04:31:21","slug":"thousands-of-seniors-are-still-dying-of-covid-19-do-we-not-care-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/thousands-of-seniors-are-still-dying-of-covid-19-do-we-not-care-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of seniors are still dying of Covid-19. Do we not care anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn\u2019t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll was shocking, as were reports of chaos in nursing homes and seniors suffering from isolation, depression, untreated illness, and neglect. Around 900,000 older adults have died of Covid-19 to date, accounting for 3 of every 4 Americans who have perished in the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>But decisive actions that advocates had hoped for haven\u2019t materialized. Today, most people \u2014 and government officials \u2014 appear to accept Covid as a part of ordinary life. Many seniors at high risk aren\u2019t getting antiviral therapies for Covid, and most older adults in nursing homes aren\u2019t getting updated vaccines. Efforts to strengthen care quality in nursing homes and assisted living centers have stalled amid debate over costs and the availability of staff. And only a small percentage of people are masking or taking other precautions in public despite a new wave of covid, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus infections hospitalizing and killing seniors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn\u2019t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll was shocking, as were reports of chaos in nursing homes and seniors suffering from isolation, depression, untreated illness, and neglect. Around 900,000 older adults have died of Covid-19 to date, accounting for 3 of every 4 Americans who have perished in the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>But decisive actions that advocates had hoped for haven\u2019t materialized. Today, most people \u2014 and government officials \u2014 appear to accept Covid as a part of ordinary life. Many seniors at high risk aren\u2019t getting antiviral therapies for Covid, and most older adults in nursing homes aren\u2019t getting updated vaccines. Efforts to strengthen care quality in nursing homes and assisted living centers have stalled amid debate over costs and the availability of staff. And only a small percentage of people are masking or taking other precautions in public despite a new wave of covid, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus infections hospitalizing and killing seniors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/thousands-of-seniors-are-still-dying-of-covid-19-do-we-not-care-anymore\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thousands of seniors are still dying of Covid-19. Do we not care anymore?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[876,18,150,290,97,14,186,51],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ageism","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-long-term-care-homes","tag-pandemic-response","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-seniors","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}