Long-Term Care recovers from COVID-19 outbreak

COVID-19 cases have dropped at the Petersburg Medical Center's Long-Term Care facility after it faced its biggest outbreak of the pandemic last week.

During the PMC Board meeting on Feb. 23, LTC Manager Helen Boggs reported that the facility had seen eight positive cases among residents as well as a few staff members.

She also said residents had all been treated prophylactically with either Paxlovid or Remdesivir and were doing fairly well.

On Wednesday, Boggs wrote that all of the COVID positive residents had recovered and no new cases had been recorded.

She also wrote that one staff member i...