COVID-19 Deaths Surged Around New Year at New York Care Facilities

File photo showing emergency medical workers unloading a patient outside a nursing home in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 18, 2020. Justin Heiman/Getty Images

COVID-19 deaths at long-term care facilities in New York state, including nursing homes and adult care facilities, surged in the final weeks of 2020, federal data show.

There were 508 deaths in long-term care facilities in New York in the two-week period ending on Jan. 4—an average of more than 250 deaths per week—according to the Long Term Care Community Coalition, whose figures are based on New York State Department of Health data.