Healthy Davis Together expands COVID testing to skilled nursing facilities The heavy toll that COVID-19 has taken on some of Yolo County’s oldest and most vulnerable residents continues, with cases — and deaths — mounting in skilled nursing facilities. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 51 nursing home residents and staff members have died of COVID-19, more than half of all the deaths that have occurred countywide. On Monday alone, the county reported 72 more cases and two more deaths linked to outbreaks in Davis, Woodland and West Sacramento longterm care facilities. Health officials have long linked nursing home outbreaks to overall community spread of the virus, with unsuspecting and often asymptomatic employees contracting the virus in the community and then bringing it into facilities.