Covid-19 Deaths Reported in PA Vet Homes

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

Deaths from the coronavirus have now been reported in three Pennsylvania nursing homes for veterans and postive cases of the virus among patients have now been reported at five of the six state run homes.
Data supplied by the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs show the deaths have occurred at state veterans homes in Philadelphia, Chester County and Pittsburgh.
At the Southeastern Veterans Center in Spring City 28 deaths from the virus have been confirmed. An additional 14 cases are presumed to be from the coronavirus.
Thirteen Covid-19 deaths have been reported at the Delaware Valley Veterans Center in Philadelphia.
Three coronavirus deaths have been reported at the Southwest Veterans Center in Pittsburgh.
Overall 55 veteran deaths at the state veterans facilties have been confirmed or presumed to be caused by Covid-19. At the Gino Merli Veterans Center in Scranton a single patient has tested positive for Covid-19.
Two patients have tested positive at the Hollidaysburg Veterans Center in Blair County.
Only the Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors Home in Erie has reported no patients infected with the virus.
The same data shows 80 employees at the state homes have tested positive for the virus" nineteen at the Philadelphia home, three in Scranton, one in Erie, 45 in Spring City and 12 in Pittsburgh. No employee Covid-19 deaths have been reported.
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