The other thing people are not considering is the cost of beating the virus. A lot of younger people don't die, but they do walk out of the hospital with a bill for $150,000 and a wrecked cardiovascular system.

An operator can do everything right--no visitors, rigorous sanitizing protocols, PPE, temperature checks multiple times a day, and so on--but the vulnerability is the staff. Caregiver families with multiple members working in different facilities (e.g., dad works as a cook in one facility, mom's a caregiver at another, and an adult child may work part-time at two other facilities) are very common. Consider the potential exposure from just one COVID-positive household of caregivers. Not their fault--nobody's fault really--but the virus will persist, and until we have a vaccine, our senior care facilities will remain highly vulnerable targets.

Cannot read this as Forbes wants me to turn off my adblock. For me to do so is not as easy as they tell you.

The non-nursing home, not-old population still needs to be concerned. One of the key drivers of susceptibility appears to be impaired insulin sensitivity (a co-factor with diabetes, obesity, heart issues, etc.) which afflicts over 80% of the US population.

What I see is that meatpacking plants, long term care facilities, jails and prisons are becoming either petri dishes, deathtraps, or both for the virus. I pity anyone who is stuck spending their time in any one of those..

Yes, and if you have something wrong with you it will accelerate it.

That means over 60,000 Americans who are NOT elderly and in nursing homes have passed away from the Coronavirus. Thanks for the statistic, you are helping to draw attention to how truly serious the Covid-19 pandemic really is.