Clark County data shows 70 COVID-19 cases at long-term care facilities

As news of COVID-19’s devastating impact to staff and residents at long-term care facilities continues to emerge — including this week’s report from the World Health Organization showing long-term care facility residents accounted for nearly half of Europe’s COVID-19 deaths — a new partnership between Clark County Public Health and the Vancouver Clinic could help shed some light on the coronavirus’ impact inside local nursing homes and assisted-care facilities.

“We know, with this disease, elderly people and those with chronic health conditions are more likely to die, so we want to do whatever we can to protect this population,” Dr. Alan Melnick, Clark County’s director of public health, stated in a press release announcing the partnership.