Long-term care facilities account for over three-fifths of norovirus outbreaks, and residents are four times likelier to succumb to the virus. These older individuals, often living with multiple comorbidities, are also at an elevated risk for long-term health complications that outlive the infection itself.
Much like the coronavirus, norovirus is easy to spread and hard to kill. Combatting it requires staff members to focus on the best way of curtailing an outbreak: stopping it before it even starts. Viking Pure’s Joshua Schwartz provides three prevention strategies to get started in a recent article published in Facility Executive.
