{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["17(4)"],"submitter":["Shen K"],"pubmed_abstract":["The COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly deadly for residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. This paper analyzes COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes during the first wave of the pandemic in the United States during the spring and early summer 2020. By combining data on facility-level COVID-19 deaths during this period with data on the neighborhoods where nursing home staff reside for a sample of eighteen states, this paper finds that staff neighborhood characteristics were a large and significant predictor of COVID-19 nursing home deaths. Even after controlling for the county where a facility is located, one standard deviation increases in average staff neighborhood (Census tract) population density, public transportation use, and non-white share were associated with"],"journal":["PloS one"],"pagination":["e0267377"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9017897"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Relationship between nursing home COVID-19 outbreaks and staff neighborhood characteristics."],"pmcid":["PMC9017897"],"pubmed_authors":["Shen K"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Relationship between nursing home COVID-19 outbreaks and staff neighborhood characteristics.","description":"The COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly deadly for residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. This paper analyzes COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes during the first wave of the pandemic in the United States during the spring and early summer 2020. By combining data on facility-level COVID-19 deaths during this period with data on the neighborhoods where nursing home staff reside for a sample of eighteen states, this paper finds that staff neighborhood characteristics were a large and significant predictor of COVID-19 nursing home deaths. Even after controlling for the county where a facility is located, one standard deviation increases in average staff neighborhood (Census tract) population density, public transportation use, and non-white share were associated with","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022","modification":"2025-04-19T17:37:02.079Z","creation":"2025-04-19T17:37:02.079Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9017897","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35439279"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pone.0267377"]}}