JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (AP) – Fifty-six Missouri veterans’ homes have been killed by COVID-19 since September 1 and 25 at a facility in southeastern Missouri.
A spokesman for the Missouri Veterans Commission told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday the deadliest outbreak in Cape Girardeau, where 20 citizens died in September and five more died from October to Monday.
Another space for veterans in the city of Mt. Vernon, the site of thirteen resident deaths, another 12 died in St. Louis. James and six others died in Warrensburg.
Thirty-eight of the deaths occurred in September, Jamie Melchert, spokesman for the Missouri Veterans Commission.
Before September, the only coronavirus death shown at a Missouri veterans’ home in April in northern St. John’s County. Louis.
Republican Gov. Mike Parson called for an external review of operations at veterans’ homes on October 2, but did not say how many veterans had died. Louis’ law firm, Armstrong Teasdale, would handle the review.
During one to the mountain. Vernon Veterans Home on September 15, Parson praised the commission.
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, we worked hard to protect our most vulnerable citizens,” Parson said in a Facebook post. “Our Missouri Veterans Commission has established national popularity for veterans’ homes. “
The first positive COVID-19 test. Vernon Veterans Home the next day, September 16, Melchert said.
Parson and his wife Teresa tested positive for COVID-19 on September 23 and have since recovered. A spokeswoman for the governor’s workplace said Parson did not contract the virus during her visit.
Missouri’s coronavirus control panel has not yet expired Wednesday afternoon, 4 days after a large increase appeared in cases that officials blamed for a “database extraction error. “
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services provided the board available on its online page from the start of the pandemic and was updated on September 28 to provide more detailed data, such as demographic data.
On Saturday, the board showed a build-up of 5,066 new cases in a day, nearly 3,000 more than the last day’s maximum. A day later, the state announced that the new number was and blamed the procedure for migrating knowledge to the new system.
Department of Health spokeswoman Lisa Cox said the board is expected to be operational Wednesday, but no explanation was given as to why the challenge persisted.