The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientific Publishing

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had an extraordinary impact on health, health care, medical sciences, and many aspects of scientific research. Post-acute and long-term care organizations were especially impacted and rapidly became epicenters of the coronavirus epidemic and its response. A study of COVID-19 mortality across 12 countries conducted in July 2020 found that mortality rates for older persons in long-term care were 24 times those of community-dwelling older persons and 664 times higher than those of community-dwelling younger persons.