{"id":39148,"date":"2020-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/u-s-nursing-home-staff-must-be-tested-regularly-for-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:10:07","slug":"u-s-nursing-home-staff-must-be-tested-regularly-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/u-s-nursing-home-staff-must-be-tested-regularly-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Nursing Home Staff Must Be Tested Regularly for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Long-term care facilities account for 42 percent of COVID-19 deaths in the United States<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Aug. 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Nursing home staff will have to be tested regularly for COVID-19, and facilities that fail to do so will face fines, the Trump administration said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Even though they account for less than 1 percent of the nation&#8217;s population, long-term care facilities account for 42 percent of COVID-19 deaths in the United States, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>There have been more than 70,000 deaths in U.S. nursing homes, according to the COVID Tracking Project.<\/p>\n<p>It has been months since the White House first urged governors to test all nursing home residents and staff, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/f96017a38fde016cc7028c3ccfba6f22\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term care facilities account for 42 percent of COVID-19 deaths in the United States<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-39148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}