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More than 80,000 people Today they live in homes for the elderly, called special homes. Many people suffer from dementia disease, where Alzheimer’s disease is more common. More and more of these have now passed away as a result of covid-19. In Stockholm, covid-19 has occupied at least three-quarters of all senior housing. Government representatives and the Public Health Authority have correctly said that this is a major failure of our current strategy. We believe there are several steps we can now take to reduce the spread of the nation’s nursing homes.
On April 24, an article was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (Arons et al., 2020), describing an elderly resident of Washington where the infection was transmitted through a staff person. Residents (so-called “users”) were screened for covid-19 two to three weeks later. In this short time, nearly two-thirds of the elderly had been infected, and of these, more than half had no symptoms (although most developed later). Virus levels were as high in the elderly with symptoms as in those without. The researchers also showed that viruses from people without symptoms can infect cells, indicating that older people without symptoms with covid-19 can infect other people in their homes. About a quarter of those infected in the home died.
