By Walter F. Roche Jr.
The coronavirus has hit another Pennsylvania veterans home pushing the total of Covid-19 deaths in the six facilities to at least 46.
A report posted today by the state Health Department lists five deaths at the Hollidaysburg Veterans Center, a 257-bed facility in Blair County.
Previously 43 Covid-19 deaths had been reported at the Southeastern Veterans Center in Spring City Chester County.
There has also been at least one Covid-19 death at the Southwestern Veterans Center in Pittsburgh. (Under the Health Department system nursing homes report 1 to 4 deaths with an asterisk.)
The deaths at the Chester County facility has prompted calls for an investigation. Two top officials at the facility were removed.
At the Hollidaysburg facility the Health Department report states that there are currently 185 patients at the 257-bed nursing home. Twenty-one residents have tested positive for the virus along with 22 employees.
In the immediately prior report issued last week no deaths were reported while nine patients had tested positive along with 13 employees.
In the most recent inspection of the Blair County home state Health Department surveyors concluded that a Covid-19 focused inspection in mid-July found no deficiencies.
The new data on the state veterans homes come as other state health data shows a resurgence of infections and Covid-19 deaths is happening in many of the state's nursing homes.
In a press briefing today Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley reported that after a lull, Covid-19 cases in nursing homes were once again on the rise.
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