Dr. Rachel Levine (courtesy Biden transition team)
President-elect Joe Biden announced this week that he had nominated Dr. Rachel Levine to be the assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Levine would be the first openly transgender person to be confirmed to a federal appointment by the U.S. Senate. Dr. Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic – no matter their ZIP code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability – and meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond, said Biden in a statement.
Self-reported data from Beaver County s long-term care facilities miss about half of December s COVID-19 cases reported through a different database and even skip most of the deaths.
According to data reported by individual facilities, about 87 residents tested positive in 10 facilities during December, with 15 residents dying. Data published by the Pennsylvania Department of Health shows 174 residents who tested positive between Dec. 1 and Dec. 29 at 15 facilities, with 35 residents dying. That s five missing facilities, and as many as 85 residents and 20 deaths unaccounted for.
State officials say they know there s a discrepancy.
Pennsylvania uses a system called the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System, or NEDSS, to transfer public health data from healthcare systems such as hospitals and long-term care facilities to public health entities. The system allows entities to swap data electronically. For instance, when a person tests positive for COVID-19, the
Two more personal care homes are among the 11 long-term care facilities reporting cases of COVID-19 in Beaver County.
According to data released Tuesday from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, Cambridge Village Personal Care Home in Patterson Township and Lakeview Personal Care in South Beaver Township are among the at least six personal care or assisted living facilities to report COVID cases in residents.
As of Monday, there were 1,017 resident cases and 227 staff cases of COVID-19 reported in 16 long-term care facilities in Beaver County since March. That includes 30 new resident cases and three new staff cases recorded in the previous seven days in the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System, or NEDSS, an electronic database that automatically tallies new COVID cases in long-term care facilities. Since March, 195 residents have died from the virus, including six recorded in the past week in NEDSS.
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