By Meghan Messerly/The Nevada Independent
Nearly 150 residents and staff members in nursing homes, behavioral health centers and correctional facilities across Nevada have tested positive for COVID-19 and 14 have died, according to a new state dashboard released Monday morning.
More than half of the cases are spread across more than a dozen skilled nursing facilities in Clark and Washoe counties, where 39 residents and 37 staff members have tested positive for the novel coronavirus and eight have died. In total, 77 residents and 66 staff members have tested positive across 29 facilities.
In addition to the cases at skilled nursing facilities, there are another 46 cases at behavioral health inpatient facilities, including 25 residents and 21 staff members; 14 cases at assisted living facilities, including 12 residents and two staff members; six cases among staff members at correctional facilities; and one case in a resident at a Las Vegas facility providing services to children and adults with disabilities.
The release of the new state dashboard comes just four days after state officials released a list of 20 assisted living and skilled nursing facilities with residents or staff members who had tested positive for COVID-19 in response to a records request from The Nevada Independent. At that time, state officials had said they would not provide individual case counts for residents or staff members because numbers were rapidly changing.
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