THE COVID-EFFECT: A Comparative Analysis of April 2020 Medicare SNF Claims

COVID distribution reporting is subject to extreme bias for a host of reasons – first and foremost, the virus is selectively more threatening to the health-compromised elderly – a cohort that disproportionately resides in institutional settings. Statistically, introducing one person infected with the coronavirus to a nursing facility would produce outcomes that are non-comparable to introducing that same catalyst into Central Park on a warm spring day.