Death toll from COVID-19 rises to 98 at state-run veterans homes

Veteran's day shining light on the current pandemic in state-run homes...for our heros.

Good evening, i'm jodie o'brien.

The novel coronavirus has claimed the lives of 98 residents of missouri veterans to date.

Six more deaths since we updated you just six days ago... five of them from the cameron veterans home -- which brings the death toll at that facility to 32.

For context -- the census at the facility on july 1st was 169 residents.

The cameron home is also battling active covid cases among its staff.

All told -- the virus has killed nearly 10 percent of the all residents in the state-run homes.

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Mike parson, r-missouri: "whether its veterans homes or our nursing homes whether its spikes in numbers we are always concerned about that.

We are going to take a deep dive into that and the resources we need to see what the problem was and how do we make sure, move in and get those problems fixed.") the governor requested the commission that oversees the seven state homes -- to investigate the outbreak in early october.

He said today he's not received a report yet and he thinks the investigation is still ongoing.

We'll continue to follow this story and bring you the latest.

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