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Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP
Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare

CMS has posted the nursing home data for the week ending August 6, 2023.

Comparing the August 6^th data to the July 23^rd data (2 weeks apart):

• Residents up to date with the vaccines decreased 0.1%
• Staff up to date with the vaccines remains the same as 2 weeks prior
• An additional 9,795 resident cases were reported as of August 6^th
• An additional 153 resident deaths were reported as of August 6^th and
• An additional 7,573 staff cases were reported as of August 6^th.

For a listing of vaccination rates for individual nursing homes, click here. The information comes up in an Excel spreadsheet entitled: Recent Facility Resident and Staff Vaccination Rates and Other Data, as reported for week ending 08/06/23. It looks identical to the spreadsheets we saw prior to the declared end of the PHE on May 11, 2022.

As of May 11, 2023, COVID-19 Community Levels (CCLs) and COVID-19 Community Transmission Levels are no longer calculatable; associated visualizations have been removed from COVID Data Tracker. The “COVID-19 Integrated County View” tab has been renamed “COVID-19 Vaccinations by County.” County-level hospitalization data will be available at COVID-19 Hospitalizations, Deaths, and Emergency visits by Geographic Area.

The above was posted August 17, 2023 with data through August 5, 2023.

As you can see, COVID-19 is certainly not done with us yet. Note the increase in hospital admissions.

Here’s the updated variant proportions for weighted estimates and Nowcast estimates as of August 19, 2023:

The NHSN Nursing Home COVID-19 Data Dashboard shows this data as of August 14, 2023 at 5:30am ET: