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EFFECT OF COVID-19 POLICY DISCREPANCIES IN HIGH-MINORITY LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES**

Abstract

The study aim is to follow the exposure of COVID-19 in older populations living in Georgia and New York nursing homes and comparatively analyze high-minority long-term care facility outbreaks according to differing state policies, quality of nursing homes, and minority population density. High-minority long-term care facilities are more likely to provide poorer quality of care to their residents. Nursing homes, which are not routinely equipped for emergency care, faced a tremendous amount of pressure as residents contracting COVID-19 rose. The Georgia Department of Public Health was one of many state departments that routinely implemented and updated their long-term care facility guidelines according to CDC recommendations. New York policies followed similar guidelines with alterations that may have attributed to the rise of their nursing home COVID-19 cases. Current research indicates that the two states' differing policies may have disproportionately affected high-minority long-term care facilities. The anticipated result has a high possibility that the state of New York may have had higher COVID-19 outbreaks in high-minority nursing homes compared to Georgia nursing homes.

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