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700 in NE Florida long-term care facilities have died due to COVID-19 complications


700 in NE Florida long-term care facilities have died due to COVID-19 complications
Vaccine appears to be making an impact, expert says
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Florida surpassed a grim milestone in February with more than 10,000 people in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities dying of COVID-19 complications since March 2020.
Robin Ohar lost her father Andrew, 92, at the start of the pandemic. He died after catching the coronavirus inside Heartland Healthcare in Orange Park.
For months, Ohar watched as lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines were administered to seniors inside long-term care facilities, including the facility where her father passed.
“I’m trying not to look in the past and neither is my family,” said Ohar. “I wish it had come out sooner for someone like my father. Would it have made a difference? I think it would have. He was part of the collateral damage of this illness.” ....

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