It's now readily apparent that a major cause of the high rate of COVID-19 deaths in the spring, and a good chunk of the high rate of death of seniors in the U.S. overall is due to crazy policies at the state level.
More specifically, 4 states required nursing homes and long-term care facilities to accept patients from hospitals that had been treated for COVID-19. These policies were in place from March through April or May, in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
Here's the chart from Political Calculations:
Further, these states got their total deaths to flatten around the time they rescinded this policy:
Those 4 curves represent about a third of all deaths in the United States from COVID-19 since the start of the year.
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