Thursday, June 11, 2020

Health Department Tests Nursing Home Residents for Covid-19

The Mississippi State Department of Health issued the following statement.


As of today, the 90th day of COVID-19 cases in Mississippi, approximately seven percent of Mississippi residents have now been tested for the disease, including 100 percent of all residents and staff of the 211 nursing homes in Mississippi.

Nursing homes are considered high risk locations because their residents are older or in poor health. Even one case of COVID-19 in these facilities among residents or employees is considered an outbreak.

This aggressive effort came at the urging of President Trump last month as he encouraged states to test all nursing homes as part of the country’s reopening strategy.

A total of 13,911 residents and 17,324 staff members were tested for COVID-19 during a 14-day period in the last two weeks of May. The Mississippi Public Health Lab and the University of Mississippi Medical Center tested a total of 26,549 individuals were tested. Of those, 676 were positive for COVID-19.

“We have been tracking outbreaks in nursing homes since we first saw COVID case in Mississippi on March 11,” said Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs. “That has been a very vulnerable population that has shown to be more susceptible to severe illness and death from COVID.”

Dobbs said an interesting finding from the nursing home testing was that many of the positive cases in residents presented with mild symptoms, not the severe symptoms of fever or shortness of breath as originally identified as the most common symptom of COVID-19.

Dobbs said completing the testing strategy was a herculean effort conducted by the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) and the Mississippi National Guard.

“We’ve been very fortunate to work with some incredible partners through the overall COVID response, and this is an example of how much we can accomplish when we work together,” he said.

For more information on the latest COVID-19 guidance and case updates, download the free MS Ready mobile app or visit the MSDH website at www.HealthyMS.com/covid-19.

Posted by Kingfish at 1:41 PM

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am not sure why this is a "hooray" moment. Seems to me we haven't prevented any nursing home deaths. And if you don't test the staff and visitors every day, what have you achieved but some meaningless statistics.

June 11, 2020 at 2:38 PM
Anonymous said...

2:38...What 'visitors'? Try to keep up.

June 11, 2020 at 3:21 PM
Anonymous said...

Do you think they realize they're going to have to keep testing residents and staff? It's not a one-and-done sort of thing.

June 11, 2020 at 5:02 PM
Paul Adams said...

From the MS Dept. of Health:

"Unfortunately, technical problems have prevented us from bringing you a COVID-19 update today. We are assembling the data we need for a complete and correct update tomorrow, however. Thanks for your patience as we work to keep information coming."

*sigh*

June 11, 2020 at 5:37 PM
Anonymous said...

Not enough fingers to count with I guess

June 11, 2020 at 6:40 PM
Anonymous said...

@5:02 PM - you really should petition to replace Dr. Dobbs, as you obviously know more than he and his staff know, Captain Obvious.

June 11, 2020 at 7:38 PM
Anonymous said...

The swab test is awful. Hope it helps in some way besides gathering data. The employees have difficult, low paying jobs and then have to put up with that. The residents are depressed and isolated already and they have to get tortured.
Health Dept got behind the day they had to come up with that list of LTC facilities with outbreaks.

June 11, 2020 at 9:05 PM
Anonymous said...

why has the health department crashed its computer twice this week?

June 12, 2020 at 12:31 AM
Anonymous said...

Patiently waiting on Marshal Ramsey's nursing home cartoon.

June 12, 2020 at 3:35 AM
Anonymous said...

Did the computer guy up and quit? Constant delays. First it was late, then late this afternoon, then Friday morning, now it just says Friday. Just release the base numbers of positive tests and deaths by county for goodness sake. All the business intelligence graphs are nice, but I can make my own if I just have the data.

June 12, 2020 at 9:55 AM
Anonymous said...

Serious pucker factor to this animated graphic on COVID mortality over time:

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/2637725/?utm_source=showcase&utm_campaign=visualisation%2F2637725&fbclid=IwAR2IhjnqoVxuBe1ZnPpE8ZM64uocUa3kfC54lO6mVm2tgEL4AEIaiytoPbA

June 12, 2020 at 3:03 PM
Anonymous said...

Hundreds are anxiously checking their PERS retirement status.

June 14, 2020 at 4:32 PM

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