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For the first time in more than two months, the number of active outbreaks in skilled nursing facilities has decreased instead of rising or remaining unchanged.
County health officials announced Wednesday that there are 60 active outbreaks in the region’s nursing homes, down from the 64 that were reported last week. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 154 total outbreaks in skilled nursing facilities, which includes one newly announced this week.
Prior to this week, the last time that active outbreaks in nursing homes decreased was in mid-November, ahead of the surges caused by Thanksgiving and the winter holidays.
Even as vaccination efforts are launched in the region’s skilled nursing facilities, novel coronavirus cases and outbreaks continue to rise among the county’s most vulnerable populations.
For the fifth week in a row, San Diego County officials reported Thursday that there have been a record-breaking number of outbreaks among skilled nursing facilities.
There are currently 63 active outbreaks in skilled nursing facilities out of the 150 that have occurred since the beginning of the pandemic.
More than half of the coronavirus cases among skilled nursing residents, and nearly half of the cases among staff, have occurred over the past six weeks during the holiday season surge in COVID-19 infections.
For the fourth week in a row, San Diego County is seeing a record-breaking number of outbreaks in its skilled nursing facilities.
County health officials reported Wednesday that there are 60 active outbreaks. That brings the total number of skilled nursing outbreaks since the beginning of the pandemic to 146.
To date, the county reported, a total of 2,548 skilled nursing residents and 1,575 staff have tested positive for the virus and 282 residents/staff have died. Deaths related to skilled nursing facility outbreaks account for 17.05 percent of the the total number of novel coronavirus deaths in the county.
And the post-holiday surge continues.
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