Inmate at Grayson County Detention Center, Spring View staff member test positive for COVID-19

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The Grayson County Health Department announced on Sunday two more confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) have been diagnosed in the county.

The two new cases are a male inmate at the Grayson County Detention Center and a female staff member at Spring View Nursing & Rehabilitation.

(A GCDC deputy who lives in another county has also tested positive, but of course that positive test is recorded in the county where the deputy lives.)

The new cases increase Grayson County’s cases of COVID-19 to 120, with 39 victims recovered, as of Friday. No new deaths were reported.

The newly confirmed cases at the GCDC increases to 18 (16 inmates, two deputies) the number of positive cases arising from the facility. Spring View Nursing & Rehabilitation has now had 14 cases of the virus diagnosed within the nursing home, 12 residents and two employees.

According to the GCDC, 27 inmates have been tested for COVID-19. Of the 16 inmates who have tested positive, 15 are currently showing no symptoms, with one inmate hospitalized since Wednesday, May 13. Six inmate tests are pending.

All the positive inmates are “in isolation together,” according to the health department.

A total of 16 detention center deputies have been tested, according to the GCDC, with eight negative tests and six test results pending.

As of Friday, the facility housed 570 inmates at its three locations: the main campus on Shaw Station Road, the GCDC Annex and the female facility on East White Oak Street.

Jailer Jason Woosley said that “an entire section of the main facility” is being used to separate the general population of the jail from inmates in quarantine. Since March, every new intake at the facility has been placed in 14 day quarantine, with every person in quarantine undergoing a COVID-19 test.

Of Grayson County’s 120 confirmed coronavirus cases, 45 are residents of Grayson Nursing & Rehabilitation while 16 are staff members. Spring View Nursing & Rehabilitation has had 12 residents test positive along with two employees. As aforementioned, the GCDC now has 18 COVID-19 cases, 16 inmates and two deputies (with one of the deputies living in another county), and five cases have arisen from Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center.

The county has eight COVID-19-related deaths; seven connected to Grayson Nursing & Rehabilitation and a 66-year-old county resident.

Only 13 of the county’s cases are “community members.”

Henderson will host a COVID-19 briefing on Monday at 3:30. The briefing can be seen live on K105’s Facebook and YouTube pages, and heard on K105.

By Ken Howlett, News Director

Contact Ken at ken@k105.com