NEW: Nearly 26,000 nursing home residents have died as a result of COVID-19—though federal regulators acknowledge their first release of figures doesn’t tell the full, tragic story.
MORE: As nation tries to exhale, coronavirus still carrying infection, death into nursing homes, data show
The new federal count shows that in the 10 states that were not reported nursing home fatalities during ABC News' last survey of national data, an additional 794 residents and staff have died. Those states are Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Montana, Missouri and Utah. Also, when responding to ABC News inquiries, some states included deaths in assisted living centers, over which the federal government does not have authority, so they are not tracked by federal regulators and not included in their tally, officials said.
“The reality is this virus doesn’t care whether seniors are living in assisted living facilities or living in nursing homes it can affect them regardless,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said during a Senate hearing earlier this month.University of Chicago Professor R. Tamara Konetzka, who studies nursing homes and assisted living facilities, said that the differences between nursing and assisted living facilities varies by state.
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