The number of nursing homes reporting cases of the coronavirus surpassed 400 on Monday.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of long-term care facilities with cases of COVID-19 jumped 172% from the 146 nursing homes that had cases one week ago.
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Elderly populations are highly susceptible to fatal cases of the coronavirus, making nursing home infections dangerous. Eighty percent of those who have died in the United States after contracting COVID-19 were over the age of 65.
The coronavirus has the ability to spread rapidly through nursing homes. Last week, one facility in New Jersey presumed all of its 94 residents had the coronavirus after several residents and members of staff became infected. The facility was forced to evacuate every resident to a hospital. Another outbreak in a Tennessee facility left more than 100 hospitalized and two dead.
As of Monday, more than 163,000 Americans had confirmed cases of coronavirus, and over 3,000 had died from it.
