VA Reports 200 Covid-19 Deaths

By Walter F. Roche Jr.

Some 200 veterans under care at US Veterans Administration facilities have died from the coronavirus and, as in the general population, New Orleans has been among the hardest hit.
The VA data show 429 veterans under care in New Orleans are under VA care, 36 being treated as inpatients and 398 as outpatients.
The VA also reported that in the past two days alone, four veterans under care in New Orleans have died from the virus.
The report shows three veterans under care in Detroit died on Wednesday and Thursday. Overall 119 veterans are being treated in that city, 21 as inpatients and 98 as outpatients.
Other VA facilities with high totals include Bronx, N.Y. 258, East Orange, N.J. with 210 cases, Brooklyn, N.Y. with 268 and Chicago (westside) 128.
The New Orleans veterans figures parallel those from the general population which has been attributed, at least in part, to attendance at Mardi Gras events. Louisiana has recently reported 700 covid-19 deaths and 2,054 hospitalized from the virus.
Still other VA treatment center covid-19 case reports show Ann Arbor- 15 inpatient 26 outpatient, Atlanta 17 and 63, Bedford, MA- 21 and 10, Boston- 13 and 24, Northport, N.Y.- 28 and 65, Philadelphia- 13 and 45, Pittsburgh-3 and 11, Richmond- 7 and 42, San Juan- 6 and 42, Tennessee Valley (Nashville)- 4 and 22, St. Louis- 12 and 26, District of Columbia- 20 and 69.
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