But it’s hard to even figure out how many outbreaks there are in these high-risk institutions, a reminder of the old adage: “If you don’t count it, it doesn’t count.”We’ve seen that illustrated in the debates about what would happen if COVID-19 overwhelmed hospitals. Beds and ventilators would go first to younger people, not people with disabilities and the elderly.The tales of older people found dead in nursing homes and in their homes in Spain and Italy are legion.
She points to her brother-in-law, saying that like all the others who have died in the pandemic, “he is more than a statistic ... he was a spouse, a father, a grandfather who contributed a lot to his community.”