May 6, 2021 · 0 Comments
By ROB PAUL
Initiative Reporter
The Congregate Care Settings Group of Dufferin and Caledon, like all members of the community, have felt the draining impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for the last 13 months.
They know it’s been the hardest year of everybody’s lives, but they want to encourage people to continue to do their party to keep the community safe.
The group is made up of Abbeyfield Caledon, Bethell Hospice, Boston Mills Retirement Community, Caledon Community Services, Choices Youth Shelter, Community Living Dufferin, Dufferin Area Family Health Team, Dufferin Child and Family Services, Dufferin Oaks Long Term Care Home, Family Transition Place, Hospice Dufferin, Kerry’s Place, Lord Dufferin Centre, Oliver House, Pine River Institute, Shelburne Long Term Care Home and Retirement Community, SHIP, and South Bridges Care Community.
It s a good thing the school year is almost over: The latest report from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment lists 58 new COVID-19 outbreaks at K-12 schools, the most in a single week since the department began releasing weekly outbreak lists over a year ago.
Of the 859 outbreaks currently under active investigation by the CDPHE, K-12 schools account for 251, or just over 29 percent of the total. That appears to be a record, too.
The CDPHE considers an entity an outbreak after two or more COVID-19 cases among residents, staffers or other people connected to a specific location are confirmed within a fourteen-day period, or two or more cases of respiratory illness with an onset of symptoms within a fourteen-day period are paired with at least one additional COVID-19 diagnosis. The vast majority of businesses and facilities identified as outbreaks remain open while working with the department to monitor symptoms and prevent future infections.
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May 5, 2021 9:00 AM
KFL&A Public Health are recognizing and celebrating the long-term care and retirement homes in the Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox and Addington region that have achieved vaccination rates of over 90 per cent among their residents and staff.
During the month of April, KFL&A Public Health challenged all staff and residents in long-term care and retirement homes in KFL&A to get vaccinated.
“With the support of community stakeholders, partners, staff, and residents, we congratulate nine long-term care and retirement homes that achieved this milestone. We are so pleased as this brings us one step closer towards preventing COVID-19 from spreading amongst our most vulnerable population,” said Dr. Kieran Moore, Medical Officer of Health at KFL&A Public Health. “Sending a very special thank you to all of the staff at these Homes for everything they do to keep residents and co-workers safe and healthy.”
At this point in the COVID-19 pandemic, with vaccination rates going up and inoculations now available to anyone over fifteen, officials had hoped that case counts would be in serious decline. But no: This week s roundup of data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment shows infections and hospitalizations continuing to rise and the number of newly identified outbreaks has skyrocketed.
The 170 new outbreak sites in the state listed on the CDPHE s just-released April 28 survey represents a 13.166 percent increase in just seven days and the spike is paced by an explosion of outbreaks at schools in which the overwhelming majority of positive tests involve students. The 52 outbreaks at K-12 facilities account for well over a quarter of the new outbreaks.
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