By KIRBY ROSS
Phillips County Review
As Kansas health care officials seek to gain control of a cluster outbreak of COVID-19 at the Logan Manor Nursing Home in Logan, the Phillips County Review has learned that two people there have had their lives claimed by the highly transmissible disease.
Knowledge of a problem in the facility first emerged last week, with four cases being diagnosed on Wednesday, July 1. The count rose to seven on Thursday, July 2, and jumped to 25 on Friday, July 3.
Of that number, 17 are residents and eight are staff.
According to a news release, an 87-year-old male and a 47-year-old male both died on July 7.
According to Kansas Department of Health and Environment daily reports, no additional cases have been diagnosed since last Friday.
The Review has learned a new round of testing that includes around 100 people is taking place as this is being written, and that a third round of testing will be conducted a week from today.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in March safety protocols have been strict at the facility, which houses our most at-risk members of the community — the aged. The hunt to determine how the safety protocol chain was broken continues.