Skip to content
NOWCAST 바카라게임 온라인 바카라 게임 5 at Noon
Watch on Demand
Advertisement

10 people have died after every resident of a Kansas nursing home got COVID-19

10 people have died after every resident of a Kansas nursing home got COVID-19
right. Get your car. Birthday birthday. For families of this George, a nursing home window visits are as close as they can get. Four months on, Most of the country's 1.4 million nursing home residents are still under strict locked down. In some places, the virus has been especially devastating. It's good to actually see him, but you know any nothing like having a touch feeling. And, you know, let him know that you know I care and give him the hook. Families whose residents don't have cell phones or left shouting through glass. They know it's for good reason. In April Cove it £19 way to Southern Pines. They have tested and told me it was positive, and it was just like a major blow. It's like the only thing I can compare it, just like if someone hears the word, they have cancer, and I know what wasn't that, but that's the way here. It's very difficult. Sometimes. It's just overwhelming. A dozen residents tested positive for the virus. Few were symptomatic. All 12 recover. Now you're feeling much better. But the pandemic has still taken a toll. One of the residents told me that her funded love her no more. She did not understand. You know, the severity of that's going on. It actually broke my heart. Alexander The Associated Press Warner Robins, Georgia
Advertisement
10 people have died after every resident of a Kansas nursing home got COVID-19
Video above from July: Nursing home residents isolated as virus drags onTen people living at a Kansas nursing home have died after an outbreak of COVID-19 infected every resident, according to a news release Monday from the Norton County Health Department.All 62 residents at the privately owned Andbe Home in Norton have tested positive for the virus, the release states."Steps are being taken to prevent any further outbreak including quarantining residents in their rooms and not allowing outside visitors into the facility," the release says, adding that relatives of all residents have been notified.Some staff members have also tested positive, and the rest are being tested, the release states.Nationwide, some 252,939 confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported among nursing home residents, and more than 59,600 have died, federal data show. Nursing home workers also have contracted the disease, and some have died. One resident of Andbe Home is hospitalized and the remaining 51 are being cared for at the facility, the health department said. Norton, near the Nebraska line, is about a five-hour drive west of Kansas City.Some of the first U.S. cases of COVID-19 were reported at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington. Several states soon placed limits on visitations due to the virus, but many have since loosened the restrictions so loved ones can visit.In July and August, on average, "more than one nursing home resident was infected every minute, and 11 residents died every hour," a U.S. Senate report released last month found. And despite calls for help from communities across the country, some nursing homes still lacked adequate testing capacity and suffered staff and PPE shortages, the report found.Kansas has reported 71,557 cases of COVID-19 and 870 deaths as of early Tuesday morning, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Video above from July: Nursing home residents isolated as virus drags on

Ten people living at a Kansas nursing home have died after an outbreak of COVID-19 infected every resident, according to a .

Advertisement

All 62 residents at the privately owned in Norton have tested positive for the virus, the release states.

"Steps are being taken to prevent any further outbreak including quarantining residents in their rooms and not allowing outside visitors into the facility," the release says, adding that relatives of all residents have been notified.

Some staff members have also tested positive, and the rest are being tested, the release states.

Nationwide, some 252,939 confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported among nursing home residents, and more than 59,600 have died, . Nursing home workers also have contracted the disease, and some have died.

One resident of Andbe Home is hospitalized and the remaining 51 are being cared for at the facility, the health department said. Norton, near the Nebraska line, is about a five-hour drive west of Kansas City.

Some of the first U.S. cases of COVID-19 were reported at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington. Several states soon placed due to the virus, but many have since loosened the restrictions so loved ones can visit.

In July and August, on average, "more than one nursing home resident was infected every minute, and 11 residents died every hour," a released last month found. And despite calls for help from communities across the country, some nursing homes still lacked adequate testing capacity and suffered staff and PPE shortages, the report found.

Kansas has reported 71,557 cases of COVID-19 and 870 deaths as of early Tuesday morning, according to data from.