People

CORONAVIRUS Spokesperson for Ashton Gardens in Portland said four people have tested positive for COVID-19 coronavirus at the facility PORTLAND, Maine — EDITOR'S NOTE: In the above video, NEWS CENTER Maine's Clay Gordon demonstrates one of the proper ways to take off protective gloves.Another Maine long-term care facility is dealing with a cluster of coronavirus, COVID-19…

Black people in New York City are twice as likely to die from coronavirus as white people, shocking new data has revealed. Grim figures released Friday by the city's Health Department show the devastating impact the pandemic is wreaking on New York's African American communities, where residents are dying from the virus more than any other…

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that over 3,500 patients and workers at skilled nursing facilities in the state are infected with the coronavirus. “It’s not lost on me, it shouldn’t be lost on you, what’s happening in our skilled nursing facilities and our senior and adult daycare facilities,” Newsom said. The California Department of Public…

At least 6,900 people living in nursing homes in the U.S. have died of the coronavirus, according to The New York Times. Data analyzed by USA Today earlier this week showed state agencies have reported more than 3,000 people have died in nursing homes across 37 states. Data from the Times shows much more than that, revealing that about…

April 17, 2020 | 2:01am Six elderly South Carolina residents — including a married couple — died of coronavirus a feweeks after attending the same funeral, according to a report. All six of the deceased were African Americans and over 60-years-old, both categories at high risk of contracting the disease caused by the novel coronavirus,…