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November’s COVID surge in New Hampshire saw the first outbreak of cases among inmates of the state prison system, including 10 cases in a Concord unit that treats mental illness and substance use disorders.
New Hampshire officials plan to give nursing home owners and operators more control of a program that searches for signs of COVID-19 among 10,000 employees in the state’s high-level care facilities.
New Hampshire officials, intent on reducing death and illness among nursing home residents who have borne the brunt of the state’s COVID-19 pandemic, have launched a testing program that relies on a small North Carolina company founded by young entrepreneurs with deep roots in that state’s conservative establishment.
Those who contract COVID-19, the disease associated with the virus, face “an unnecessary, rapid death due to respiratory issues,” said Joseph Ouslander, a Florida physician and past president of the American Geriatrics Society. “Sometimes people who are infected deteriorate in hours.”