FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – More than 650 patients have died at Florida's nursing homes and assisted living facilities from the new coronavirus, including 22 at a facility near St.
Petersburg, state data shows. Florida Department of Health figures released late Friday night show that 656 patients, eight employees and one person of unknown status have died at the state's nursing homes and assisted living facilities with 14 reporting at least 10 deaths and 183 reporting at least one.
That means nursing homes and ALFs account for almost 40% of the state's 1,715 confirmed deaths from COVID-19. The state has now had more than 40,000 confirmed cases since reporting its first two months ago.
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