COVID-19 CASES AT FOCUSED CARE AT BRENHAM
Nineteen residents and staff members at Focused Care at Brenham have recently tested positive for COVID-19.
A statement Thursday from the nursing home said ten residents who tested positive have been transferred to Focused Care at Baytown, two residents were transferred to Kruse Village’s COVID unit, and one resident was admitted to Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station. Another resident who tested positive but is asymptomatic returned home to family to quarantine.
Five staff members tested positive, and they are all quarantining off site. Two of the five were not vaccinated during the first two vaccination clinics at the nursing home, held on January 7th and January 28th, and are symptomatic. Another team member who tested positive received both doses of the vaccine and is not showing symptoms. The other two team members who tested positive each had one dose of the vaccine and are showing mild symptoms.
The third vaccine clinic was scheduled and postponed during the severe winter weather, and was held on Thursday.
The statement said there are currently no Focused Care at Brenham residents or staff members on site who have tested positive for COVID-19.
The nursing home began outbreak testing as the result of a newly admitted resident becoming symptomatic and testing positive. The outbreak testing, which occurs every three to four days and is required by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), will continue until no positive tests are returned in 14 days. At that time, the facility will continue its policy to test twice a week. During this time, care providers are also required to wear N95 masks in place of surgical masks.
Focused Care said it continues to update the HHSC daily in reference to test results and the residents and staff members who tested positive, and remains in close contact with the providers caring for their positive residents. It also said it will continue operating with the same safeguards in place prior to Governor Greg Abbott’s latest executive order until new guidance is shared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
KWHI is attempting to clarify how many residents at Focused Care at Brenham have been vaccinated.
Sad news indeed! People falsely assume that being vaccinated will prevent a COVID infection. The vaccination will not prevent a positive infection; but, may decrease the intensity of symptoms. Be aware that Abbott’s lifting of COVID restrictions is a political stunt and has absolutely no medical or scientific sense to it. I guess it is OK to get sick and possibly die from COVID as long as you have money in your pocket. BACK TO BUSINESS!
Yes back to business we all need to work. And the lifting restrictions thing shouldn’t matter, if you want to wear a mask then do so, if you do t want to go to a crowded restaurant then don’t. Do we really need some to tell us what to be doing ? When there was a mask mandate not everyone was wearing one anyway so what did it really matter.
How many of the residents were vaccinated and how did they react? That is an important question us that have been fully vacinated.
As the family member caring for my ‘double dose vaccinated ‘ mother now at my home, I have also asked how many of those positive received their vaccines in January because something is definitely wrong with this outcome and it needs medical & scientific research. She is testing positive, yet is not ill and , no symptoms of COVID. Who was the vaccinating provider?, was the vaccine kept at proper temps? , was the correct dosage administered?, why aren’t those already vaccinated over a month ago being IgG & IgM tested to confirm they have developed antibodies to fight the virus? I have a lot of questions, too.
I believe you will test positive after you get the vaccine ..not sure for how long… The covid antigen activates antibodies to fight it..thus the symptoms. I had covid with many symptoms, later on received the vaccine.. first injection was like reliving covid , second was one day of chills,shakes and fever.
I work in a long term care facility here in Brenham and I have received 2 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. I have not had the covid virus. I have been covid tested on my job every week (sometimes twice a week) and I have never had a positive result. The vaccine can not give you covid but it doesn’t keep you from getting it either. It just helps so that you don’t get it so bad.