NY
NYC death toll jumps by 3,700 after uncounted fatalities are added
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NYC death toll jumps by 3,700 after uncounted fatalities are added
04/14/2020 05:08 PM EDT
The city now has more than 10,000 deaths.
By ERIN DURKIN
New York City’s official coronavirus death toll has soared past 10,000, after thousands of deaths that previously went uncounted were added to the city’s statistics.
In a new count released Tuesday, 3,778 more deaths were added to the rolls — driving up the previously recorded total of 6,589 by more than half. Now, the city records 10,367 deaths related to the virus.
Previously, the city had not counted people who died at home without getting tested for the coronavirus, or who died in nursing homes or at hospitals, but did not have a confirmed positive test result.
VA
Virus Deaths at U.S. Nursing Homes Pass 3,800, With 45 at Virginia Facility
The outbreak at a Virginia nursing home has become the deadliest in the nation at a long-term care facility.
About 80 percent of the residents at the Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Richmond, Va., have tested positive for the coronavirus.
By Danielle Ivory, Mitch Smith and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
April 14, 2020, 5:32 p.m. ET
At least 45 residents of a nursing home in Virginia have died from the coronavirus, the highest known death toll reported at a long-term care facility in the United States, according to an analysis of case data by The New York Times.
An additional 83 residents have tested positive for the virus at the facility, the Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Richmond, Va., its medical director, Dr. Jim Wright, said in an interview on Tuesday. He said the home had about 160 residents, meaning about 80 percent had contracted the virus.
The Times has identified more than 2,500 nursing homes and other long-term care facilities across the United States with coronavirus cases. More than 21,000 residents and staff members at those facilities have contracted the virus, and more than 3,800 have died.
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MA
32 residents die of coronavirus at 2 Mass. Jewish living facilities
April 14, 2020 By Penny Schwartz
BOSTON (JTA) – Thirty-two residents at two Jewish senior living facilities that are part of the same nonprofit network have died from COVID-19, and scores of other residents and staff have tested positive for the virus.
Eleven residents of Chelsea Jewish Life Care, across its three Boston-area locations, and 21 residents at JGS Lifecare in Longmeadow, a suburb of Springfield in Western Massachusetts, died, according to letters to families posted earlier this week on the websites of both facilities....
At JGS Lifecare, 93 residents tested positive out of more than 180 tests conducted, and 43 staff members tested positive of 84 tested to date. Across its sites north of Boston, Chelsea Jewish reported that 117 residents tested positive, out of 251 tested, and of 103 staff tested, 40 tested positive.