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ALBANY New York’s total COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes are about 42% more than what the state Department of Health previously published, according to a report from the state attorney general’s office released Thursday morning. The DOH confirmed the higher numbers that afternoon, releasing for the first time the number of presumed long-term care coronavirus fatalities.
According to state Health Department Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker, department data audited to date shows 12,743 total skilled nursing facility resident fatalities, including 9,786 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 complications 5,957 fatalities within nursing facilities and 3,829 in hospitals and 2,957 presumed virus nursing home fatalities from March 1, 2020 to Jan. 19, 2021.
The owner of a Willsboro assisted living facility now facing a deadly coronavirus outbreak says he doesn’t know how the virus entered the facility. He said i
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The gym of the former Willsboro school was converted into a dining hall for Champlain Valley Senior Community â complete with holdover elements such as a scoreboard and wooden bleachers â as seen in June 2013. (Enterprise photo â Chris Knight) Two residents of a senior home in Willsboro have died after contracting COVID-19, and three other Essex County residents also died this week of the disease. There is a coronavirus outbreak at the Champlain Valley Senior Community. At least 30 people connected to the assisted living facility have tested positive, according to Willsboro town Supervisor and Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Shaun Gillilland.