Ohios coronavirus nursing home deaths top 5,000 with 203 added this week – cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Ohio Department of Health has reported nearly 1,000 coronavirus deaths to patients of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities over the last four weeks, including 203 reported Wednesday.

With the total now reaching 5,059 since the onset of coronavirus in Ohio about a year ago, the long-term care facilities account for 54% of all known COVID-19 deaths in the state.

The state health department in its weekly update for the facilities reported 3,785 current cases involving patients, and another 2,427 involving long-term care facility staff. Current cases are defined as those active during the seven-day period ending Tuesday.

The state began tracking nursing home cases by facility on April 15. There have been 39,667 patient cases and 27,529 staff cases since then.

The health department each Wednesday provides updates on deaths by county and cases by facility for the long-term care facilities. Facility-by-facility details can be found below.

This weeks report listed 4,690 deaths for cases since April 15. Separately, the department has said another 369 patient deaths pre-date the start of the more detailed tracking on April 15.

Among the deaths since April 15, with the most are Franklin (429), Cuyahoga (389), Summit (380), Lucas (249), Mahoning (206) and Stark (204).

Below is a list of case totals by facility. If you are having trouble viewing the list, use this link instead.

Rich Exner, data analysis editor for cleveland.com, writes about numbers on a variety of topics. Follow on Twitter @RichExner. See other data-related stories at cleveland.com/datacentral.

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