{"id":50345,"date":"2020-04-13T21:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T02:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=50345"},"modified":"2020-04-13T21:19:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T02:19:44","slug":"50345","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=50345","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Not all that long ago, I speculated that if the bug got loose in other nursing homes, we’d see results like this.<\/p>\n

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Coronavirus infections continue to rise at Holyoke Soldiers\u2019 Home; 32 dead<\/a><\/p>\n

The number of veterans living at the Holyoke Soldiers\u2019 Home who have tested positive for the coronavirus continues to increase while one additional resident has died from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

A dozen additional veterans have now\u00a0tested positive<\/a>, meaning more than half the residents at the state-run home for the elderly and infirm have contracted the virus, officials for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services said.<\/p>\n

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Currently 32 veterans have died from COVID-19 and 88 have contracted the virus. Six other residents have died of other causes since the first veteran tested positive from COVID-19 on March 21. When the virus was first detected there were about 210 residents at the home.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Staff at the Soldiers\u2019 Home has recently partnered with Holyoke Medical Center and Baystate Health to improve testing and is now getting results within 24 hours, officials said.<\/p>\n

Tests of all employees show 78 have contracted the disease while 222 employees have tested negative, officials said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not all that long ago, I speculated that if the bug got loose in other nursing homes, we’d see results like this. Coronavirus infections continue to rise at Holyoke Soldiers\u2019 Home; 32 dead The number of veterans living at the Holyoke Soldiers\u2019 Home who have tested positive for the coronavirus continues to increase while one … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50355,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50345\/revisions\/50355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}