Nursing home infections, deaths surge amid lockdown measures

A resident is removed from the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing Monday, March 30, 2020, in Gallatin, Tenn. Multiple people tested positive for the coronavirus at the facility Friday. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a statewide "safer-at-home" order on Monday to help stem the state's rapid spread of coronavirus, mandating the closure of all nonessential businesses while urging residents to remain at home whenever possible for the next two weeks. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

A resident is removed from the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing, Monday, March 30, 2020, in Gallatin, Tenn. Multiple people tested positive for the coronavirus at the facility Friday. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a statewide "safer-at-home" order on Monday to help stem the state's rapid spread of coronavirus, mandating the closure of all nonessential businesses while urging residents to remain at home whenever possible for the next two weeks. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

A worker in protective clothing walks into the Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing Monday, March 30, 2020, in Gallatin, Tenn. Multiple people tested positive for the coronavirus at the facility Friday. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a statewide "safer-at-home" order on Monday to help stem the state's rapid spread of coronavirus, mandating the closure of all nonessential businesses while urging residents to remain at home whenever possible for the next two weeks. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Multiple residents of Lakeland Health Care Center, a nursing home in Wanaque, New Jersey, have died of COVID-19, according to the borough's Mayor Dan Mahler. Several others, including residents and staff members, are infected with the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

In this March 29, 2020, photo provided by Courtney Templeton, her mother, Sharon Templeton, who tested positive for COVID-19, smiles through her room window at Sundale nursing home in Morgantown, W.Va. Courtney Templeton faults the home for not testing residents fast enough and not keeping healthy ones separate from those just back from a nearby hospital showing COVID-19 symptoms, including her mother’s roommate. (Courtney Templeton via AP)

A residents from St. Joseph's Senior Home is loaded into a bus in Woodbridge, N.J., Wednesday, March 25, 2020. More than 90 residents of the nursing home in Woodbridge are being transferred to a facility in Whippany after 24 tested positive for COVID-19, according to a spokeswoman for CareOne, which operates the Whippany facility. The facility has moved its residents to other facilities to accommodate the new arrivals. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

A deer crosses through the fog as a Carroll County Sheriff officer and a Maryland State Trooper guard the driveway to the Pleasant View Nursing Home, in Mount Airy, Md., Sunday, March 29, 2020. Maryland's governor said Saturday night that the nursing home had been struck by an outbreak of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A sign marks at an entrance to the Cedar Mountain Post Acute nursing facility in Yucaipa, Calif., Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The Southern California nursing home has been hit hard by the coronavirus, with more than 50 residents infected, a troubling development amid cautious optimism that cases in the state may peak more slowly than expected. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

FILE - In this March 25, 2020, file photo, a Sundale nursing home sign sits on the property in Morgantown, W.Va., where several people have tested positive for the coronavirus. Nursing homes across the country went into lockdown this month with mandatory measures to protect their frail, elderly residents from coronavirus, but an alarming wave of deadly outbreaks nearly every day since suggests the steps that included a ban on visits and daily health screenings of staffers either came too late or were not rigorous enough. (Ron Rittenhouse/Dominion Post via AP, File)