Poor leadership, insufficient communication and staff shortages all bubbled to the surface as a deadly wave of COVID-19 swept through an aged-care home, a coroner has found.

Higher rates of coronavirus transmission are leading to more COVID-19 outbreaks in Los Angeles County, with nursing homes, schools and worksites reporting increases in recent weeks.

Where nursing home staff vaccinations lag, COVID-19 outbreaks may follow, ... and experts are concerned that's contributed to dozens of recent outbreaks in long-term care facilities. ...

Health care and "social assistance" settings -- including doctor offices, ... the highest number of new COVID-19 cases by reported outbreak setting since it reopened as of May 2020.

A survey of counties by journalists from six newsrooms across the state found that reporting of COVID-19 cases at facilities varies and the way in which that information is then transmitted to the ...

The current wave of COVID-19 cases has contributed to active outbreaks at an additional seven long-care facilities in Forsyth County. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services lists Forsyth ...

More information: Michael Fralick et al, SARS-CoV-2 burden on the floor was associated with COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in two acute care hospitals: a prospective cohort study, Infection Control ...