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Three outbreaks of LONG-term care COVID that emerged this summer in Ventura and Ojai have been linked to at least 235 infections and 11 deaths, with dozens more cases in a new outbreak at a nursing home in Simi Valley, public aptitude said Wednesday.
At the Ojai Health Nursing Home
At least 78 employees and citizens have been infected, 29 of the 40 citizens have now recovered, and public fitness officials said the facility is progressing.
Four deaths of Ojai Nursing Home citizens related to COVID-19.
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A giant outbreak that made headlines in July at the Victoria Care Center nursing home in Ventura is also still active, fearing the option of additional exposures involving a member who recently tested positive for the virus, Dobrosky said.
More effects are expected this week.
This Victoria Care outbreak stands at 99 cases overall, adding 29 involving staff members, Dobrosky said, and an official at the nursing home claims the count is lower. Of the 70 instances involving residents, at least 53 have recovered, according to public health.
A nursing home official said eight Victoria Care citizens who tested positive had died. Public aptitude has connected five deaths in nursing homes with the virus, but keep in mind that they link the deaths to COVID if the final death certificate has been registered and the virus is in it.
At Wellness Care Senior Living in Ojai, 58 people, adding 20 staff members, tested positive for the virus, an outbreak that began in mid-August, Dobrosky said. At least 35 of the 38 citizens who tested positive have recovered, and public fitness officials said the site was progressing.
Two citizens died.
Public fitness officials are now responding to an outbreak that broke out before Labor Day weekend at the Simi Valley Health Care Center in Simi Valley. Dobrosky said weekly tests had begun and another 41 people tested positive, adding 26 residents.
No deaths were reported, he said.
“It’s the same story we’ve been hearing for months,” nursing home administrator Scott Kunz said of how the virus enters sites long-term despite screening tests and protocols. only a little.
Ojai Health Representatives
He said long-term care services face a virus that can spread for weeks and months, in part because symptoms can appear up to two weeks after exposure.
New positive tests may be revealed during weekly testing, which would generate new considerations for the traceability of all imaginable exposures.
“This is a slow-burning epidemic,” Dobrosky said.
In some facilities, the virus continues to spread despite infection education, the use of non-public protective equipment, repeated visits by infection specialists in the state, screening and other tactics.
And the outbreaks in Ventura, Ojai and Simi have resulted in giant numbers, with the public aptitude investigating COVID activity lately at about 20 of the county’s more than 400 long-term care facilities, Dobrosky said.
The California Department of Public Health and the California Department of Social Services monitor establishments that have had COVID cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Tom Kisken covers health care and news for the Ventura County Star. Contact him at tom. kisken@vcstar. com or 805-437-0255.
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