$11,874,100 was raised<\/a> by 88,341 people via GoFundMe.<\/p>\nThe online crowdfunding site previously took a five percent cut on all donations, which means the platform made $593,705 from organizing the Las Vegas shooting campaign. That number doesn’t include a 2.9 percent credit\/debit card processing fee, plus a $0.30 per donation fee.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nAfter plenty of public outcry, GFM announced it was doing away with its platform fee for campaigns beginning November 1, 2017 or later. The company declined to donate its almost $600K vig to the LVVF, however.<\/p>\n
Fund Allocations<\/b><\/h2>\n
It had been 155 days since gunman Stephen Paddock committed the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. But most victims and their families, until now, had yet to receive any financial aid stemming from the over 90,000 donors who gave.<\/p>\n
After several months of the LVVF deciding how to best allocate the money, the charitable organization began making those distributions today.<\/p>\n
Estates of the 58 dead will receive $275,000 from the Las Vegas Victims’ Fund. Ten others who suffered permanent paralysis or brain damage will receive the same amount. But a perusal of a wide range of costs nationally indicates that for those who remain behind, or will need a lifetime of medical and possibly psychiatric support, those payments won’t carry them.<\/p>\n
According to the Society of Critical Care Medicine, intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay has been estimated at 3.8 days in the United States. However, it of course varies depending on the patient’s trauma severity, age, and medical history.<\/p>\n
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says lifetime treatment costs for traumatic brain injuries\u00a0run from $85,000 to $3 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation estimates the cost of living with permanent paralysis ranges from $350,000 to $1 million in the first year, and between $42,000 and $185,000 in each subsequent year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nAs for those hospitalized overnight, the victims will receive distribution based on the length of their stay, ranging from $200K for hospitalizations of 24 days or more down to just $17,500 for one day of hospital care.<\/p>\n
And none of that will fill the void for lost parental earnings and college funds for victims’ children.<\/p>\n
The 317 survivors who were treated through outpatient care can additionally submit claims, but they’ll have to wait in line. The LVVF is holding $2,518,294 for the “Physically Injured Outpatient,” and will assess each case on an individual basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Money raised for the Las Vegas shooting victims of October 1, 2017 is finally being allocated, more than five months after the fundraising was initiated. Much of the money being directed to decedents\u2019 families and injured survivors is coming from the gaming industry, which collectively donated $17.7 million to the Las Vegas Victims\u2019 Fund and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":71896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,21,10,18,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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