Published: 12/9/2020 2:48:56 PM
As coronavirus cases surge across the state, local assisted living facilities and nursing homes are bracing for what could be a long and isolated winter.
With more than 800 new positive COVID-19 tests reported on Tuesday, just one day after the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services announced more than 1,000 new cases on Monday for the first time since the pandemic began, the safety of those in regional facilities is the issue that keeps those in charge awake at night.
Locally, there have no outbreaks like those currently taking place at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton, where 28 people have died due to COVID-19 as of press time Wednesday, and like others previously reported at Greenbriar in Nashua and Villa Crest Nursing and Retirement Center in Manchester.
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But a group of Democratic leaders appear eager to tie Gov.
Chris Sununu to the outbreak that has killed almost 30 veterans.
âThe tragic and deadly COVID-19 outbreak at the Veterans Home might have been prevented, or at least mitigated, had you not vetoed House Bill 1246,â read a letter that 21 prominent New Hampshire Democrats who have served in the military plan to send to Sununu, including Rep.
Steve Shurtleff (D-Penacook), Sen.
Jeanne Shaheenâs husband,
William Shaheen. Shurtleff had planned to send the letter Thursday, but chose to delay sending it out of respect for Rep.
Dick Hinch, whose death was announced Wednesday evening.
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