ANDREWS - Concerns with the nursing home’s virus status heightened last Friday with more positive cases and one death at Permian Residential Care Center. The local nursing home had been clear of the virus since the pandemic’s onset, but struck earlier last week when five or six residents tested positive for COVID-19 eight days ago. Since that time, the situation has grown worse, according to the Permian Regional Medical Center Chief Executive Officer Donny Booth. As of last Friday afternoon, 21 residents tested positive with most of them experiencing mild symptoms. They were being monitored in the nursing home’s isolated COVID unit in ...