'We believe that the spread is caused by the unvaccinated staff members,' Annaliese Impink, executive vice president for Retama Manor Nursing Center, said.
The number of nursing homes in Texas with active cases of COVID-19 has surged dramatically over the past month, as the southwestern state continues to have the second-highest amount of new daily infections in the country.that the number of Texas nursing homes with at least one active infection of COVID-19 has risen by almost 800 percent. Meanwhile, the southwestern state ranks 46th nationwide for its rate of vaccinated nursing home residents.
In mid-July, Texas had just 56 nursing homes with at least one active COVID-19 infection, the Tribune reported. As of August 11, that number jumped to 489—or an increase of 773 percent. However, the number is still much lower than January when more than 900 nursing home facilities had COVID-19 infections.
The number of Texas nursing homes with new COVID-19 infections has surged by nearly 800 percent in the past month. In this photo, Rene Neira receives his Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site at a senior center on March 29 in San Antonio, Texas.Nursing home deaths have jumped substantially as well. While just seven nursing home residents died of COVID-19 in the four weeks prior to July 21, more than 80 died from the novel coronavirus in the weeks after that until August 11.
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