SEMINOLE A 70-year-old resident of the Freedom Square retirement community died Wednesday after battling COVID-19 for more than three weeks, according to a medical examiner report.<\/p>\n
Freedom Square has suffered one of the worst death tolls among Floridas long-term care facilities, with two dozen deaths.<\/p>\n
Patricia Lewandowski was transferred to Largo Medical Center on April 15, where she tested positive for the coronavirus and pneumonia, according to the report released Friday. She had a history of cirrhosis and diabetes and was placed on a ventilator.<\/p>\n
She was transferred to a hospice facility on Tuesday, where she died the next day.<\/p>\n
That brings the total number of coronavirus fatalities in Pinellas nursing homes and assisted living facilities to 42, according to the state. That is 70 percent of the 60 virus-related deaths in the county.<\/p>\n
The Freedom Square retirement community in Seminole, where Lewandowski lived, has been dealing with a major COVID-19 outbreak that so far has infected 104 staffers and residents, killing 24. Most of the infections came from the Seminole Pavilion Rehabilitation nursing home on Freedom Squares campus.<\/p>\n
Infections and deaths in long-term care facilities in Pinellas matches the situation across the state: Residents and staffers of long-term care now account for at least 665 of the states death toll, 40 percent of those who have lost their lives to the coronavirus in Florida.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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