Retired firefighter Gary Holmberg was only supposed to be at the Pleasant View nursing home in Maryland for a little while, recovering from a fall at his assisted living center.
FILE PHOTO: Medical officials aid a residents from St. Joseph's nursing home to board a bus, after a number of residents tested positive for coronavirus disease in Woodbridge, New Jersey, U.S., March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Stefan Jeremiah
The nursing home accounts for 60% of the county’s coronavirus cases and most of its fatalities. Pleasant View’s experience highlights the struggle that nursing homes are having to keep elderly, frail and sick residents healthy in the epidemic. Two weeks later, on March 27, the nursing home reported two positive cases of the coronavirus, with 64 more the following day, Carroll County health commissioner Ed Singer told reporters last week.
LifeSpan-affiliated care centers have since become more strict with staffers, asking them to stay away for 14 days if they work at a facility where someone has tested positive. FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker in protective suits helps an elderly person to get off an ambulance at the Southeast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center nursing home during the coronavirus epidemic. San Antonio, Texas, U.S. April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Go Nakamura
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