Centre County’s 6th COVID-19 death was a personal care home resident, coroner says
Another Centre County personal care home resident has died from the coronavirus, the coroner’s office said Wednesday evening.
An 88-year-old man died Wednesday at Mount Nittany Medical Center, Centre County Coroner Scott Sayers reported in a press release.
The unidentified man was a resident of Wynwood House at State College, owner Vincent Romanini said Wednesday evening. It is the second COVID-19-related death reported at the facility. According to the state Department of Health, the facility has had 17 cases among residents and 12 cases among employees, though Romanini disputes that data.
The death is the county’s sixth related to the new coronavirus, according to Sayers. The state DOH, however, has listed six deaths since Saturday, when Sayers told the Centre Daily Times he was only notified about five.
The DOH counts COVID-19 deaths toward the individual’s county of residence, meaning a Centre County resident who dies elsewhere would still appear in the county’s total.
Nearly two-thirds of the state’s 5,265 deaths as of noon Wednesday have been reported in long-term care facilities, according to the DOH.
The other five confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Centre County were an 89-year-old man on April 16, a 96-year-old man May 8, an 89-year-old woman May 9, a 74-year-old man May 12 and an 88-year-old woman May 13, according to the coroner’s office.