No COVID-19 deaths at Kavod or Shalom Park

, as they say, don’t lie. In the grim arithmetic of the coronavirus, it’s clear that older people are considerably more likely to die of the disease than those who are younger. Older people are doing so in dramatically higher numbers, especially if they have other medical conditions, which a great many of them do. Here in Colorado, according to figures posted May 15 by the Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment, approximately 90% of the nearly 1,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 have been among people age 60 and over. Even more disturbing, more than half of the state’s total number of victims have been residents of nursing homes and other senior care communities. These numbers roughly reflect both national and international trends, where […]