The first confirmed case in the United States, which entered the United Kingdom is a member of the Colorado National Guard, stationed in a nursing home where a coronavirus outbreak occurred, state officials revealed Wednesday.
Another member of the six-nation guard team dispatched to the Good Samaritan Society facility in the city of Shimla is also suspected of having such an agreement, said Colorado state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Hurley said during the virtual update.
“We have a confirmed and diverse case in the state,” he said. “And we’ve arranged a team for the facility.”
They were part of a six-member National Guard detachment that arrived on Dec. 23 at a facility about 45 miles northeast of the Colorado Springs. After being tested the day before Christmas, he was diagnosed with an infection.
“In Shimla, they were deployed to help address staff shortages after the outbreak, which affects 100 percent of the facility’s residents,” Colorado Govt. Jared police said.
“Now both patients, both of whom do not live in Shimla, are in isolation, as contact tracers are trying to determine where, when and how they were able to infect the variant,” Hurley said.
Both patients, who were previously identified as men by Albert County Health Director Dwayne Smith, have no recent history of traveling outside the country, Hurley said.
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Since the outbreak began, U.S. About 19.7 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported in and the virus has killed more than 341,000 people, according to the latest figures from NBC News.
Located in a local hospital and home to about 25 residents at one time, the Good Samaritan Society facility in Shimla is in the midst of an outbreak of the Covid-19 case and so far two confirmed coronavirus deaths have occurred, aged 93 years. An elderly man and an 88-year-old woman, officials said.
The facility caters mostly to people in the eastern plains of Colorado and topped the U.S. News & World Report survey in 2009 with a survey of 15,500 nursing homes in the country.
But in May, state health department inspectors noted that the facility “failed to establish and maintain an infection control program,” although it downplayed the potential level of harm to residents.
And in an unrelated case in November, the facility and its operators were indicted in a civil lawsuit in connection with the death of a 74-year-old native who strayed into his motorized wheelchair and into a nearby sewer pit.
