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SFGATE: California reports 1st prison inmate death caused by virus

California reports 1st prison inmate death caused by virus
Published on April 20, 2020 at 05:27AM by By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and DAISY NGUYEN, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Califronia corrections officials announced Sunday the first prison inmate death from complications related to COVID-19.

The inmate died at a hospital after contracting the coronavirus at the California Institution for Men in San Bernardino County, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement.

No further details were released to protect the inmate's medical privacy and next of kin was notified, the statement said.

Nearly 60 inmates at the prison have tested positive for the coronavirus as outbreaks continue to hit California’s most vulnerable populations, including people in nursing homes, on the streets or in homeless shelters.

California has for the first time released details about nursing homes facing coronavirus outbreaks, with three facilities in Los Angeles among the hardest-hit, as the numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths across the state continue to rise on Sunday.

The Department of Public Health published a list of nearly 260 skilled nursing facilities with more than 3,000 total positive cases among patients and staff.

The information released Friday is a “point in time snapshot” representing 86% of California's 1,224 nursing homes that had reported data within the previous 24 hours, the department said on its website.

Eighty patients and 62 staff members tested positive at the Brier Oak on Sunset nursing home in Los Angeles, according to state numbers. Also in Los Angeles, the Country Villa South Convalescent Center saw 58 residents and 15 staff test positive, and the Garden Crest Rehabilitation Center had 35 patients and 35 staff test positive, the health department said.

To the north, Redwood Springs Healthcare Center in Visalia, a town in the agricultural Central Valley, had 91 residents and 46...

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