TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A recent lawsuit charges a Florida home for the developmentally disabled with neglect after a resident permanently damaged his esophagus by drinking dish detergent.
Local public and health officials, faith leaders and law enforcement will gather Friday during a virtual memorial ceremony to honor what is marked as the one-year anniversary of the first Leon County resident s death because of the novel coronavirus.
To date, the Florida Department of Health has confirmed that 307 Leon County residents have died due to complications caused by the virus. Throughout the Big Bend s 11 counties, the state health department has confirmed 843 deaths.
The planned memorial falls on the one-year anniversary of the first Leon County resident who died because of the virus, though not the first person in Leon County who died.
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“All the deaths in the nursing homes and hospitals were always fully, publicly and accurately reported,” the Democratic governor said, weeks after the state was forced to acknowledge that its count of nursing home deaths excluded thousands of residents who perished after being taken to hospitals. He explained the matter Monday as a difference of “categorization,” with the state counting where deaths occurred and others seeking total deaths of nursing home residents, regardless of the location.
Lack of COVID-19 data on people with intellectual disabilities ‘comes with a body count’
By Katheryn HoughtonKaiser Health News
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Peter Prater’s family wasn’t thinking about COVID-19 when the call came that he had been taken to the hospital with a fever.
It was April, and the Tallahassee Developmental Center, where Prater lives, hadn’t yet had any COVID-19 diagnoses. Prater, 55, who has Down syndrome and diabetes, became the Florida center’s first known case, his family said. Within two weeks, more than half of the roughly 60 residents and a third of the staff had tested positive for the virus, according to local news reports.