MILWAUKEE — Nearly 300 nursing home residents in Wisconsin died from COVID-19 in the most recent month reported to the federal government.
The Journal Sentinel reports that's more than 10 times the previous month.
Nursing homes in Wisconsin reported that 294 residents had died of the disease caused by the coronavirus between Oct. 12 and Nov. 8, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
In the previous month, the deaths of 28 residents were reported.
Health officials reported 17 more deaths from the virus on Friday, bringing the tally of deaths to 3,257. The state also reported 1,300 more people have tested positive.
The state has seen a decline in the average of new cases it reports each day, but still had the nation's eighth-highest number of new cases per capita over the last two weeks, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. One in every 145 people tested positive in the past week.
The number of nursing home residents who have reportedly caught the virus has also shot up. In the latest four-week period, Wisconsin nursing homes reported 2,130 residents with newly confirmed cases, data show.
That's up from about 387 new cases in the four-week period from Sept. 14 to Oct. 11.
