BEFORE Covid, the death rate in long term care facilities was 35% per year. Median survival was 2.2 years. Elderly people with serious medical conditions can and do die from simple colds and certainly from community acquired pneumonia’s. And 6.5 million Americans are 85 years and older. Nobody is going to live forever. WHO IS DYING and AT WHAT TIME IN THEIR LIFE makes a difference.

It isn’t just the numbers!