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authors: Spaetgens, Bart; Brouns, Steffie H.; Schols, Jos M.G.A.
title: The Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Crisis in the Aftermath of COVID-19: a Dutch Perspective
date: 2020-06-29
journal: J Am Med Dir Assoc
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2020.06.045
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doc_id: 1039769
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To the Editor: 1 We read with great interest the article by Laxton In the Netherlands, the peak of the first wave of the pandemic seems to be behind us 5 and it is now becoming apparent how hard the nursing home population has been hit 6 and how disruptive the pandemic is for Dutch nursing homes as well. Morbidity and 7 mortality in nursing homes that suffered outbreaks of COVID-19 has been high 8 despite the fact that Dutch nursing home care benefits from well-developed care 9 infrastructures that are fully integrated in the national health sector. 2 Despite this, the 10 nursing home sector was overshadowed by the huge national attention for COVID-19 11 in acute hospital care, resulting in evident shortages of personal protective 12 equipment (PPE) and the inability to develop an adequate testing policy due to a too 13 low national test capacity as well. As such, the nursing homes were, through no fault 

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Author Contributions: All authors contributed equally to this letter.Sponsor's Role: No funding was received for this work