Florida public health experts tracking the spread of COVID have pointed to nursing home staff members working at multiple facilities as a factor, according to an article on The New York Times website.
At Oasis Health and Rehabilitation Center in Palm Beach County, for instance, there have been infections whose origins have not been clearly identified.
The center is connected, via shared staff, to 25 other “high-risk” facilities that have also had outbreaks whose origins may be staff-related, the article said.
Across the U.S., more than 62,000 nursing home residents and staff members have died from Covid-19, about 40 percent of the nation’s coronavirus fatalities.
Spread has also been linked to inspections in some cases. Two state inspectors who visited Idaho nursing homes in July were unknowingly infected with the coronavirus at the time, according to an article on The Idaho Statesman website.
An investigation by the Wall Street Journal found that 26 states don’t require nursing home surveyors to receive regular COVID-19 tests, according to an article on the Skilled Nursing website.
Read the full The New York Times article.
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