I had to look that up, is it a butter? We have a supplier of butter near us like that, we bought a block. We also bought a grass fed cow in Feb, talk about getting in under the wire... Phew
“Biologist Carl Bergstrom on coronavirus, misinformation and why we weren’t prepared”
Hat tip Treyfish, keeping up with the nursing home new on FT:
Coronavirus leaves 1 more veteran dead at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home: 88 residents, 78 employees test positive for COVID-19
Today 5:33 PM3/31/2020 -
By Jeanette DeForge | jdeforge@repub.com
HOLYOKE –One more veteran has died of coronavirus at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, bringing the total of deaths of residents in three weeks to 33.
An additional 88 residents at the state-owned home for elderly and infirm veterans have contracted COVID-19, test results on 11 more are pending and 78 employees are positive for the disease. Seven other residents have died in the past three weeks from other causes, officials for the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services said.......
..At the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home, eight veterans have died of COVID-19 and 23 additional residents have been infected with the coronavirus. A total of 217 veterans have tested negative, officials said
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42 dead in coronavirus outbreak at Virginia nursing home, more expected
Rich McKay
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(Reuters) - Forty-two residents of a Virginia nursing home near Richmond have died from the COVID-19 disease pandemic in one of the worst clusters of the new coronavirus in the United States, and officials expect more deaths to come.
At least 127 elderly people out of the 163 residents of the Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Henrico County have tested positive for the new coronavirus in recent weeks, said its medical director Dr. James Wright. News reports say the latest two people died in the last three days.
.....Of the 97 known coronavirus outbreaks in Virginia, 53 are in long-term care facilities such as Canterbury, state health officials said.
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Coronavirus is ‘in most, if not all our nursing homes,’ N.J. health official says
Updated 5:10 PM; Today 4:40 PM
A state health official said Monday they are working under the assumption that all of New Jersey 375 nursing homes has been affected the coronavirus as case numbers among that particularly vulnerable population continue to rise to more than 5,200.
Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli announced 324 those long-term care facilities have confirmed cases. That up from 81 nursing homes with at least one case less than two weeks ago.