WINDSOR — A COVID-19 outbreak at the Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community included 23 people as of Monday morning, an uptick of a couple of cases in the past week, according to an administrator.
The outbreak, which has left two residents of the Judith Brogren Memory Care Center dead, is primarily concentrated in the memory care center where 13 residents and six employees have been infected, said Kristi White, executive director of The Village at Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community, the independent and assisted living residences at the Windsor facility.
In addition to the deaths, two memory care residents were hospitalized at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center last week and another was undergoing rehabilitation at Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Windsor, White said.
One resident of the community’s assisted living section also has tested positive and was hospitalized last week, White said. Three employees of Cedar Hill Health Care Center, the community’s nursing home, also have tested positive; one has recovered and returned to work.
Windsor appears to be the hot spot, per capita, for the Vermont side of the Upper Valley with more than 29 cases over the two-week period ending last Wednesday, according to a map on the Vermont Department of Health’s website. The state announced eight new cases in Windsor County on Monday for a total of 132 new cases over the past two weeks. There were four new cases in Orange County on Monday for a total of 36 new cases over the past two weeks.
On the New Hampshire side of the Upper Valley, Grafton County has had 366 new cases in the past two weeks and Sullivan County has had 264, according to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services.
CLAREMONT — On Sunday, the day before Claremont schools reopened for in-person instruction after about three weeks of remote learning, the city still had 82 current cases of COVID-19.
Though that number is below the city’s high of more than 100 cases, it still represents ongoing community transmission in the community, City Manager Ed Morris said in a Monday phone interview. Morris said he’s not aware of any ongoing outbreaks in Claremont.
In terms of masking and social distancing requirements, Morris said, “I think for the most part people are being fairly compliant.”
While case numbers have gone up and down somewhat, Morris said he hopes the city is, like the state as a whole, starting to see promising downward trends.
Reached by phone on Monday, Martha Hood, the community manager at the Earl M. Bourdon Centre, declined to comment on the status of an outbreak at the Maple Avenue apartment complex for low income seniors.
“The people who need to know know,” Hood said before hanging up.
Elaine Perrault, a resident of the Bourdon Centre who is in her 80s, said in a phone interview on Monday that three residents there died recently. She thought at least one had died of COVID-19-related causes. She said she was unaware of any current cases in the facility.
As Perrault spoke, a voice came on the intercom to announce that the Centre would be holding a vaccine clinic next week.
“Whatever I can get, I want,” Perrault said of the COVID-19 vaccines after the intercom announcement was over. “That’s wonderful.”
Nora Doyle-Burr can be reached at ndoyleburr@vnews.com or 603-727-3213.
