Resident of Cass County nursing home dies of COVID-19; others test positive
A resident of long-term care facility has died from the new coronavirus in Cass County, the county’s second COVID-19 death, officials said Friday afternoon.
The deceased, a Harrisonville woman in her late 80s, tested positive for the virus Tuesday, according to the Cass County Health Department.
Officials said the woman’s infection was not related to travel. She suffered from underlying health conditions, the department said.
The woman was a resident of Meadow View Health and Rehabilitation, a nursing home in Harrisonville.
In a statement Thursday, the facility said it had received confirmation that six additional residents tested positive for the virus. The day before, it said a resident and a staff member had tested positive.
The residents who have tested positive were being quarantined in private rooms. More tests results were pending.
“We continue to screen all residents at least twice per day and every employee each time they enter the building for signs of fever, cough or changes in their health status,” Craig Workman, a spokesperson for the facility, said in a statement. “In addition, any residents who may have been exposed are being housed in a separate section of our facility.”
As of Friday afternoon, nearly 3,800 people in Missouri had tested positive for the virus and 96 had died. Kansas City had 283 confirmed cases and Jackson County had 193, according to state numbers.
In Kansas, the death toll climbed to 50, with 10 deaths linked to a nursing facility in Wyandotte County. There had been more than 1,160 confirmed cases in the state. Missouri has been testing about three times as many people than in Kansas.
Across the United States, more than 490,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus and more than 18,300 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University.
This story was originally published April 10, 2020 at 5:09 PM.
