The CEO of Rochester Regional Health says 27 patients at the DeMay Living Center in Wayne County and the Clifton Springs Nursing Home in Ontario County have tested positive for COVID-19.
But Dr. Robert Mayo says 24 of those patients had been vaccinated, and are showing only mild symptoms or NO symptoms. Of the three people who weren't vaccinated, one has serious symptoms and is in the hospital. Mayo says that shows the vaccine protected those 24 patients, even though they picked up the infection anyway.
RRH says it tests nursing home staff and patients every three-to-seven days. As to how the coronavirus got into the nursing homes, Dr. Mayo says that's less important than the fact that the COVID-Vaccine protected the patients.