Residents at the eight-floor, 527-bed nursing home, include war veterans and Holocaust survivors.
Lina Scacco, a spokesperson for Parker Jewish Institute explained that the nursing home had a higher number of fatalities because it started Covid-19 testing early in March.
“It really speaks to who we are as an organisation, since we’ve been around for an extremely long time,” Ms Scacco told Patch.
“We have a frailer and more complicated and more complex population. They are very vulnerable to any type of viral illness that could be fatal to them because of their co-morbidities.”
Despite this, American media had previously alleged that the home was ill-equipped to deal with the virus outbreak as staff were lacking requisite protective equipment and had been forced to wear bin bags as gowns.
