CONCORD — The state on Monday denied InDepthNH.org’s Dec. 21, 2020, right-to-know request relative to how many state legislators and staffers contracted COVID-19 after House Speaker Dick Hinch died from
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CONCORD, NH – The state on Monday denied InDepthNH.org’s Dec. 21, 2020, right-to-know request relative to how many state legislators and staffers contracted COVID-19 after House Speaker Dick Hinch died from the virus two weeks earlier.
“In accordance with NH RSA 141-C:10, we do not release information relating to outbreaks unless there is a compelling public health reason to release information (such as potential community exposure or to control the spread of disease),” wrote Elizabeth Maynard, counsel to the state Department of Health and Human Services in an email.
The denial came the same day a federal judge refused to require Republican House Speaker Sherman Packard to allow a remote option for disabled Democratic members for this week’s sessions Wednesday and Thursday at the NH Sportsplex in Bedford.
The reports last week that there are no new outbreaks at the New Hampshire Veterans Home was a welcome reprieve for the residents, staff, and family members who have suffered heartbreaking losses over the last few months. As a veteran, the situation.
Outbreaks take deadly toll at nursing homes
Cristina Michelle Alvarez, a licensed practical nurse, who worked at Golden View Health Care Center in Meredith. She tested positive for COVID-19 in a rapid test at the long-term care facility on Dec. 24. Courtesy
Rita Landry, a resident of the New Hampshire Veterans Home, wears the Zonta Club s vaccination pin.
Rita Landry, a 92-year-old veteran of the Air Force, became the first resident at the New Hampshire Veterans Home to get a coronavirus vaccine when she received a shot on Thursday.
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Despite all that has been learned and all the precautions taken, COVID-19 has continued to find its way into New Hampshire nursing homes with alarming regularity and deadly consequences.
12 outbreaks end, no new ones at long-term care facilities
By KATHY McCORMACKJanuary 26, 2021 GMT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Twelve coronavirus outbreaks at long-term care facilities in New Hampshire have ended, and there currently are no new outbreaks to report, state Health Commissioner Lori Shibinette said Tuesday.
That’s “definitely a positive trend that we’ve been looking for over the last several weeks,” Shibinette said at Gov. Chris Sununu’s weekly news conference on coronavirus-related updates.
On the list of closed cases is the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton, which lost over 30 residents to the virus.
The majority of deaths caused by the virus in the state have happened to residents in long-term care facilities.