The death toll at a Hayward nursing home with a large coronavirus outbreak increased to 11 Tuesday as a community leader died there, and another Alameda County facility recorded its first death, health officials announced.
The death at East Bay Post Acute Care in Castro Vally, where 45 patients and staff are stricken with the virus was its first. At the Gateway Rehabilitation and Care Center, Chabot-Las Positas Community College District Trustee Marshall Mitzman, 73, died.
Also Tuesday, Santa Clara County health officials released data showing that 320 patients and staff 230 people have tested positive for the coronavirus at 16 nursing homes in the country since the crisis began. Eleven people have died. The county did not name the facilities.
Another two people died who were in an unnamed independent living facility where 11 people have tested positive for the virus, the county’s data show. There were another 11 positive tests spread over six unnamed assisted living facilities and one board-and-care home, which are smaller care homes for as many as six people that do not provide medical services.
In Hayward, where an outbreak at the Gateway Care and Rehabilitation Center involves 65 patients and staff, the death toll now includes Mitzman. His death was announced by Rev. Chuck Horner, senior pastor at Calvary Baptist Church.
He was the 11th patient to die at Gateway during Pandemic.
Hayward councilman Mark Salinas wrote in a Facebook post that Mitzman was a “steady leader, a thoughtful policy maker, and he always puts students front and center of his work.”
Mitzman, who obtained a doctorial degree from Cambridge University, was a business owner and involved in numerous philanthropic efforts in Hayward and the surrounding area. He was first elected to the college district in 2008 and served at least one term as its president, according to a biography on the school’s website. He was an adjunct instructor for both local community colleges and at UC Berkeley’s Hass School of Business.
