More than 100 patients have tested positive in a COVID-19 outbreak at an upstate nursing home. NHC Greenwood is reporting 111 active coronavirus cases and 5 deaths.
According to their spokeswoman Casey Reese, the facility has managed to keep patients coronavirus-free, until this month when it went from 0 cases to 111 since the first week in August.
"As we continue to face this pandemic together, we find hope in those that have recovered as we process loss of those we loved with COVID," Reese said.
Reese said everyone got tested after a staff member had symptoms.
According to NHC's online dashboard Monday morning, 5 Greenwood residents have died with COVID. 50 employees have tested positive.
Reese says most patients are asymptomatic.