I talked with a Infectious Disease Doctor who works for the VA in a very high Covid mortality area (outside this VA).

The VA publishes the number of Active cases as well as the number who have died in each major VA hospital which is updated daily. The particular hospital has had a 5% fatality rate. Which for the number of cases it has seen, is the lowest on the East Coast of the US. Some VA hospitals have a 17% fatality rate, with the vast majority having 10 -12% as a median fatality rate.

I complimented the doctor and asked why it was so relatively low. (VA hospitals and nursing home centers treat a majority of high risk individuals). The doctor said as soon as I saw what happened in the Nursing Homes in Seattle, I tested and segregated the positive Covid patients and staff. I also made sure PPE was available and put in CDC protocols as soon as we received them, sometimes they came in the middle of the night or weekend and we responded to them immediately. We continued with weekly testing of staff.

The doctor also said antibody testing is useless as out of hundreds of cases with people with known recovery, there have been only 3 positive cases (meaning it detected they had Covid 19).