Nine workers at an Amazon distribution facility in Aurora have tested positive for the new coronavirus, one of 225 active outbreaks in Colorado senior care facilities, factories, prisons and workplaces.
There have been 7,765 positive COVID-19 cases linked to the outbreaks and 783 total deaths, according to the latest data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
While 225 outbreaks remain active, 45 have been resolved, meaning the state believes the virus is no longer spreading in that particular setting.
The cases at Amazon’s facility are the latest to hit the e-commerce giant. There have been scores of outbreaks across the country, including at facilities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Wisconsin.
Earlier this month, Jana Jumpp, an Indiana Amazon employee, calculated at least 125 company facilities have seen outbreaks And an estimated 900 of the company’s 400,000 blue-collar workers have had the disease, according to the New York Times.
Most of Colorado’s outbreaks have occurred at senior living facilities and other long-term care centers, though some of the most serious ones have come inside jails, prisons and factories.
Denver’s downtown detention center — officially called the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center — saw its cases plummet to 268 from 584 last week, state data shows. Meanwhile, the Sterling Correctional Facility jumped from 463 cases last week to 563 on Wednesday.
Facilities with the largest outbreaks by case count are:
- Sterling Correctional Facility: 563 cases, two deaths
- JBS meatpacking plant, Greeley: 273 cases, six deaths
- Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center, Denver: 268 cases, zero deaths
- Orchard Park Health Care Center, Centennial: 151 cases, five deaths
- Cherry Creek Nursing Center, Aurora: 141 cases, 33 deaths
Mountain Vista Health Care in Wheat Ridge had seven more deaths since last week. It now has seen 27 deaths and 114 total cases. Cherry Creak Nursing Center has seen the most deaths — 33 — of any facility in Colorado, though it has one fewer case and no additional deaths from last week.
Other facilities with at least 20 deaths are:
- Centennial Healthcare Center, Greeley: 88 cases, 24 deaths
- Laurel Manor, Colorado Springs: 84 cases, 21 deaths
- Mountain Vista Health Care, Wheat Ridge: 114 cases, 27 deaths
- Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center, Brush: 97 cases, 22 deaths
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