MAJOR HOME NURSING OUTBREAK IN PRINCETON - 60 Positive Cases, Three Deaths

(08/04/2020)
While there have been outbreaks in two WV hospitals with staff and patients, a major nursing home outbreak has happened in Princeton.

More than 60 people have tested positive for the coronavirus and three have died in an ongoing outbreak at a West Virginia nursing home.

31 staffers and 33 residents at the Princeton Health Care Center have tested positive.

Nineteen people linked to the Mercer County facility have been hospitalized.

Department of Health and Human Resources Secretary Bill Crouch has said some cases at the nursing home were linked to tourism travel to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.