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BLUEFIELD â A COVID-19 outbreak involving 36 residents and six staff members has been confirmed at a Mercer County nursing home, officials said Tuesday.
Although 76 residents and 55 employees of the Mercer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Bluefield were administered the first of two planned Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shots earlier this month, an active COVID-19 outbreak is underway at the facility. According to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, 36 residents and six staff members have tested positive for the virus at the Bluefield-based nursing home.
According to the AMFM corporation, which operates the Mercer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and 18 other long-term care centers throughout West Virginia, 92 residents of the Bluefield-based facility had been tested for the virus as of Dec. 28 with 56 of those tests coming back negative and 36 positive.
Outbreak confirmed at Bluefield nursing home, 36 residents and six staff members test positive for COVID-19
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By Charles Boothe Bluefield Daily Telegraph Dec 19, 2020
Dec 19, 2020
CHARLESTON â West Virginia is aggressively providing the Covid-19 vaccine to all residents and staff at long-term care facilities in the state, with some facilities in this area already finished.
Gov. Jim Justice said during his pandemic briefing Friday that the state is not just planning to vaccinate the most vulnerable population, it is acting.
âWe will be done in a little over two weeks (vaccinating all residents and staff) from when the first shipment (of the vaccine) arrived in West Virginia,â he said, adding that about 8,000 doses were on their way to those facilities by Friday with more coming as the doses arrive in the state.