News ‘Our patients are dropping like flies’: 16,000 dead from COVID-19 in U.S. nursing homes May 1, 2020 Tricia L. Nadolny and Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY Comments Off on ‘Our patients are dropping like flies’: 16,000 dead from COVID-19 in U.S. nursing homes USA TODAY has created a database of nursing homes and long-term care facilities with COVID-19, as more states name facilities with outbreaks.