{"id":91183,"date":"2021-10-18T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T19:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=91183"},"modified":"2021-10-18T15:48:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T19:48:56","slug":"the-most-important-coronavirus-statistic-42-of-u-s-deaths-are-from-0-6-of-the-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=91183","title":{"rendered":"The Most Important Coronavirus Statistic: 42% Of U.S. Deaths Are From 0.6% Of The Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Avik Roy<br \/>\nForbes Staff<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_547c3e6b425241fcafd4483e85fd8c1d\" class=\"wp-caption wp-caption-wrap alignnone\">\n<div class=\"article-body-image image-embed__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbor.forbes.com\/thumbor\/960x0\/https%3A%2F%2Fspecials-images.forbesimg.com%2Fdam%2Fimageserve%2F547c3e6b425241fcafd4483e85fd8c1d%2F960x0.jpg%3Ffit%3Dscale\" alt=\"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference during the new coronavirus pandemic, Thursday,... [+] May 14, 2020, in Doral, Fla. DeSantis has signed an executive order for the reopening of Miami-Dade and Broward counties on May 18. (AP Photo\/Lynne Sladky)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-image-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\" aria-hidden=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference during the new coronavirus pandemic, Thursday,<span class=\"plus\" data-ga-track=\"caption expand\">&#8230; [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Americans are vigorously debating the merits of continuing to lock down the U.S. economy to prevent the spread of COVID-19.\u00a0A single\u00a0statistic may hold the key to resolving this debate: the astounding\u00a0share of deaths occurring in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nursing homes and assisted living facilities: The #1 COVID problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2.1 million Americans, representing 0.62% of the U.S. population, reside in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. (Nursing homes are residences for seniors needing help with activities of daily living, such as taking a shower or getting dressed, who also require 24\/7 medical supervision; assisted living facilities are designed for seniors who need help with activities of daily living, but don\u2019t require full-time on-site medical supervision.)<\/p>\n<p>According to an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freopp.org\/the-covid-19-nursing-home-crisis-by-the-numbers-3a47433c3f70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/freopp.org\/the-covid-19-nursing-home-crisis-by-the-numbers-3a47433c3f70\" aria-label=\"analysis\">analysis<\/a>\u00a0that Gregg Girvan and I conducted for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freopp.org\/?source=post_page-----3a47433c3f70----------------------\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/freopp.org\/?source=post_page-----3a47433c3f70----------------------\" aria-label=\"Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity\">Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity<\/a>, as of May 22, in the 43 states that currently report such figures, an astounding 42% of all COVID-19 deaths have taken place in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vestpocket\">\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" data-nosnippet=\"true\">PROMOTED<\/p>\n<div class=\"ntv-wrapper\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<div class=\"ntv-ad\">\n<div id=\"ntv-rail-0-0\" class=\"show-label\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-google-query-id=\"CNfyw7_c1PMCFdzqKAUdqyYMig\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7175\/fdc.forbes\/article\/standard\/default\/standard_5__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7175\/fdc.forbes\/article\/standard\/default\/standard_5\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/336e886adf772e4aa15fc4a31822e25e.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-38\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"90\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"5\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ntv-ad\">\n<div id=\"ntv-rail-1-0\" class=\"show-label\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-google-query-id=\"CPzaxL_c1PMCFazNKAUdScsFDw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7175\/fdc.forbes\/article\/standard\/default\/standard_6__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7175\/fdc.forbes\/article\/standard\/default\/standard_6\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/336e886adf772e4aa15fc4a31822e25e.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-38\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"108\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ntv-ad\">\n<div id=\"ntv-rail-2-0\" class=\"show-label\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-google-query-id=\"CPOOxr_c1PMCFazNKAUdScsFDw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7175\/fdc.forbes\/article\/standard\/default\/standard_7__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7175\/fdc.forbes\/article\/standard\/default\/standard_7\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/336e886adf772e4aa15fc4a31822e25e.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-38\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"108\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"7\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_30483\" class=\"wp-caption wp-caption-wrap alignnone\">\n<div class=\"article-body-image image-embed__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbor.forbes.com\/thumbor\/960x0\/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Ftheapothecary%2Ffiles%2F2020%2F05%2FCOVID-NH-2020-05-28.jpg\" alt=\"Long-term care facilities account for 42% of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths, but only 0.6% of the U.S. population.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-image-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Long-term care facilities account for 42% of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths, but only 0.6% of the U.S.<span class=\"plus\" data-ga-track=\"caption expand\">&#8230; [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><small class=\"article-photo-credit\">FREOPP.ORG<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>(Among states reporting their death totals, 42% of COVID deaths have taken place in long-term care facilities; we also estimate the share as 42% for the full U.S. population, based on incorporating the demographics of the non-reporting states.)<\/p>\n<p>Let that sink in: 42% of all COVID-19 deaths are taking place in facilities that house 0.62% of the U.S. population.<\/p>\n<p>And 42% could be\u00a0an undercount. States like New York exclude from their nursing home death tallies those who die in a hospital, even if they were originally infected in a\u00a0long-term care\u00a0facility. Outside of New York, more than half of all deaths from COVID-19 are of residents in long-term care facilities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article_paragraph_7\">\n<div class=\"tp-container-inner\"><iframe id=\"offer_7c3cc2aa75864be609b6-0\" title=\"offer_7c3cc2aa75864be609b6-0\" src=\"https:\/\/buy.tinypass.com\/checkout\/template\/cacheableShow?aid=Yj2fRrCPpu&amp;templateId=OTMNB56G6EFU&amp;templateVariantId=OTV23R7HJV5O3&amp;offerId=fakeOfferId&amp;experienceId=EX57PP5AWTFD&amp;iframeId=offer_7c3cc2aa75864be609b6-0&amp;displayMode=inline&amp;pianoIdUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fauth.forbes.com%2Fid%2F&amp;widget=template&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com\" name=\"offer_7c3cc2aa75864be609b6-0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>70% of COVID-19 deaths in Ohio, 69% in Pennsylvania<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prior to last week, Ohio reported that 41% of COVID deaths were taking place in long-term care facilities. But updated disclosures last Friday, taking deaths prior to April 15 into account,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/article\/news\/health\/coronavirus\/coronavirus-deaths-ohio-nursing-homes\/95-0287fad5-d13c-4730-bc7b-1e2b9c5e73f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/article\/news\/health\/coronavirus\/coronavirus-deaths-ohio-nursing-homes\/95-0287fad5-d13c-4730-bc7b-1e2b9c5e73f9\" aria-label=\"upped that share to 70%\">upped that share to 70%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Minnesota, 81% of all COVID-19 deaths are of nursing home and residential care home residents. The region from the eastern seaboard from Virginia to New Hampshire has been especially hard-hit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30484\" class=\"wp-caption wp-caption-wrap alignnone\">\n<div class=\"article-body-image image-embed__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbor.forbes.com\/thumbor\/960x0\/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Ftheapothecary%2Ffiles%2F2020%2F05%2FCOVID-LTC-2020-05-28.jpg\" alt=\"Nearly one-tenth of New Jersey nursing home &amp; assisted living residents have died from COVID-19.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-image-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Nearly one-tenth of New Jersey nursing home &amp; assisted living residents have died from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><small class=\"article-photo-credit\">FREOPP.ORG<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Nearly one-tenth of all New Jersey long-term care residents have died from COVID-19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another way to cut the data is to look at nursing home and assisted living facility deaths as a share of the population that lives in those facilities. On that basis, three states stand out in the negative direction: New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>In Massachusetts and Connecticut, COVID deaths per 10,000 nursing home and assisted living facility residents were 703 and 827, respectively. In New Jersey, nearly 10 percent of all long-term care facility residents\u2014954 in 10,000\u2014have died from the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy is that it didn\u2019t have to be this way. On March 17, as the pandemic was just beginning to accelerate, Stanford epidemiologist John Ioannidis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/03\/17\/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/03\/17\/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data\/\" aria-label=\"warned\">warned<\/a>\u00a0that \u201ceven some so-called mild or common-cold-type coronaviruses have been known for decades [to] have case fatality rates as high as 8% when they infect people in nursing homes.\u201d Ioannidis was ignored.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New York, New Jersey, Michigan\u00a0forced nursing homes to accept infected patients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead, states like New York, New Jersey, and Michigan actually ordered nursing homes to accept patients with active COVID-19 infections who were being discharged from hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The most charitable interpretation of these orders is that they were designed to ensure that states would not overcrowd their ICUs. But well after hospitalizations peaked, governors like New York\u2019s Andrew Cuomo were doubling down on their mandates.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as April 23, Cuomo\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/23\/nursing-homes-cant-reject-coronavirus-patients-cuomo-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/23\/nursing-homes-cant-reject-coronavirus-patients-cuomo-says\/\" aria-label=\"declared\">declared<\/a>\u00a0that nursing homes \u201cdon\u2019t have a right to object\u201d to accepting elderly patients with active COVID infections. \u201cThat is the rule and that is the regulation and they have to comply with that.\u201d Only on May 10\u2014after the deaths of nearly 3,000 New York residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities\u2014did Cuomo stand down and partially rescind his order.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo\u2019s change of heart came too late for Maria Porteus. Her father, Carlos Gallegos, died of COVID-19 in a Long Island nursing home in April that adhered to Cuomo\u2019s mandate. \u201cIt\u2019s a slap in the face,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/10\/cuomos-nursing-home-reversal-is-too-little-too-late-goodwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/10\/cuomos-nursing-home-reversal-is-too-little-too-late-goodwin\/\" aria-label=\"she said\">she said<\/a>, \u201cbecause he\u2019s not taking responsibility for what happened to my father and so many others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Florida has performed better with vulnerable seniors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contrast the decisions by governors like Cuomo with those of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. In Florida, all nursing home workers were required to be screened for COVID-19 symptoms before entering a facility. On March 15, before most states had locked down, DeSantis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/Blogs\/archives\/2020\/03\/15\/as-coronavirus-cases-rise-gov-ron-desantis-bans-visitors-to-all-florida-nursing-homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/Blogs\/archives\/2020\/03\/15\/as-coronavirus-cases-rise-gov-ron-desantis-bans-visitors-to-all-florida-nursing-homes\" aria-label=\"signed an executive order\">signed an executive order<\/a>\u00a0that banned nursing home visitations from friends and family, and also banned hospitals from discharging SARS-CoV-2-infected patients into long-term care facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day on these calls [with hospitals], I would hear the same comments and questions around, \u2018We need to get these individuals returned back to the nursing home,\u2019\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/05\/coronavirus-crisis-ron-desantis-florida-covid-19-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/05\/coronavirus-crisis-ron-desantis-florida-covid-19-strategy\/\" aria-label=\"said\">said<\/a>\u00a0Mary Mayhew, who runs Florida\u2019s Agency for Healthcare Administration. \u201cWe drew a hard line early on. I said repeatedly to the hospital, to the CEOs, to the discharge planners, to the chief medical officers, \u2018I understand that for 20 years it\u2019s been ingrained, especially through Medicare reimbursement policy, to get individuals in and out. That is not our focus today. I\u2019m not going to send anyone back to a nursing home who has the slightest risk of being positive.\u2019 What we said constantly is let\u2019s not have two cases become 20 or five become 50. If you don\u2019t manage this individual as you return them back, you will have far more being transferred back to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florida also prioritized long-term care facilities for personal protective equipment, or PPE, with the understanding that it was just as important, if not more so, to protect workers at nursing homes and assisted living facilities. \u201cIf I can send PPE to the nursing homes, and they can prevent an outbreak there, that\u2019s going to do more to lower the burden on hospitals than me just sending them another 500,000 N95 masks,\u201d said DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning from Florida\u2019s example<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While it is too late for thousands of nursing home residents who have already died, there is still time to protect the millions who remain, by learning from Florida\u2019s example.<\/p>\n<p>First, every state that has mandated that nursing homes accept actively infected COVID-19 patients should immediately rescind and reverse that mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Second, as Florida has done, we must restrict visits to nursing homes by family and friends for at least the next several months, with the possible exception of those who can prove that they are not actively infected with the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Third, we must prioritize nursing homes and assisted living facilities for personal protective equipment, at an at least equal level of priority as hospitals and other first responders.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, we must test all nursing home workers and residents for active infections, using RT-PCR tests and other FDA-authorized methods of detection.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth, we must strive wherever possible to ensure that nursing home staff are working at a single facility; it is likely that staff working at multiple facilities are helping to spread the infection. Infected nursing home workers and residents should be quarantined at an off-campus facility. States could contract with now-empty hotels to assist with this process.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth, the seven\u00a0states that thus far have refused to report COVID nursing home deaths\u2014Hawaii, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Michigan, and Vermont\u2014need to start reporting their death tolls in long-term care facilities. The federal government has instituted such a requirement for nursing home deaths occurring\u00a0after May 5, but as Ohio teaches us, it is also important to get the data from the previous\u00a0several months.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan, in particular, has had a significant outbreak of COVID-19, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/2020\/05\/22\/whitmer-extends-stay-home-order-through-june-12\/5247671002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/2020\/05\/22\/whitmer-extends-stay-home-order-through-june-12\/5247671002\/\" aria-label=\"extended the state's economic lockdown through June 12\">extended the state&#8217;s economic lockdown through June 12<\/a>. Transparency into fatalities at long-term care centers in Michigan is essential for assessing the wisdom of her\u00a0policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The optimistic take: Those outside of nursing homes are at lower risk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is one silver lining\u2014or perhaps bronze lining\u2014to the COVID long-term care tragedy. The fact that nearly half of all COVID-19 deaths have occurred in long-term care facilities means that the 99.4 percent of the country that\u00a0<em>doesn\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0live in those places is roughly half as likely to die of the disease than we previously thought.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30463\" class=\"wp-caption wp-caption-wrap alignnone\">\n<div class=\"article-body-image image-embed__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbor.forbes.com\/thumbor\/960x0\/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Ftheapothecary%2Ffiles%2F2020%2F05%2FCOVID-assume-150k-deaths.jpg\" alt=\"Risk of death from COVID-19 is concentrated in the elderly.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-image-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Risk of death from COVID-19 is concentrated in the elderly.<\/p>\n<p><small class=\"article-photo-credit\">FREOPP.ORG<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many European countries have struggled with the same nursing home problems that we have. But based on the mounting evidence that serious illness from COVID-19 is concentrated in the elderly, Switzerland and Germany have reopened their primary and secondary schools. Sweden, for the most part, never closed them to begin with. Germany has kept most of its factories in operation, and Sweden\u2019s restaurants remain open. All of these countries have stable-to-declining rates of hospitalization and death from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The results in these countries should give us increased confidence that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freopp.org\/a-new-strategy-for-bringing-people-back-to-work-during-covid-19-a912247f1ab5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/freopp.org\/a-new-strategy-for-bringing-people-back-to-work-during-covid-19-a912247f1ab5\" aria-label=\"measured steps to reopen the economy can work here\">measured steps to reopen the economy can work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>State governments bear much more of the responsibility for the depth of the COVID-19 pandemic than many Americans appreciate. But that also means that states have the opportunity to learn from their own mistakes and do the right thing: by protecting vulnerable seniors, and letting millions of Americans get back to work.<\/p>\n<p>* \u00a0 * \u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Utah and Kansas have begun reporting nursing home fatalities statewide, which brought our estimate of fatality share from 43% to 42%. The maps and text have been updated to reflect this new information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 2:<\/strong>\u00a0A spokesman for Alaska Gov. Jeff Turner stated that Alaska has no COVID-19 deaths to report from nursing homes or assisted living facilities. A spokeswoman for the Wyoming Department of Health stated that Wyoming has experienced 4 such fatalities out of a total of 14 COVID-19 deaths. The maps and text have been updated to reflect this information.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/theapothecary\/2020\/05\/26\/nursing-homes-assisted-living-facilities-0-6-of-the-u-s-population-43-of-u-s-covid-19-deaths\/?sh=1c5f92a174cd\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/theapothecary\/2020\/05\/26\/nursing-homes-assisted-living-facilities-0-6-of-the-u-s-population-43-of-u-s-covid-19-deaths\/?sh=1c5f92a174cd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}