Coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities set another record Wednesday, two days after long-term care facilities began receiving the vaccine.

There are 138 outbreaks in the state’s nursing homes right now, plus another 150 in assisted-living facilities, according to state outbreak data published Wednesday. There are now significantly more nursing homes with outbreaks than those without. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, there were 223 nursing homes in Colorado in 2019. Only 85 of those are currently outbreak-free.

Last week, there were 131 nursing home outbreaks, plus 148 assisted-living clusters. That itself was a record, topping another previous record from the week before.

Nursing homes remain particularly dangerous for COVID outbreaks. Not only are the residents in confined quarters, making social distancing difficult, but they’re also populated with people at high-risk for severe disease and death.

The good news is that residents and staff at these facilities are in the the second half of the top priority tier for the state, and the vaccinations for those people began on Dec. 28. It’s unclear just how many vaccines have been distributed thus far; a message to the state seeking comment was not returned Wednesday. 

Doug Farmer, the head of a nursing home trade group, said that he’d heard from some facilities who’d had clinics and that things had gone smoothly. Nursing homes are regulated by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the federal government has contracted with CVS and Walgreens pharmacies to hold clinics in facilities and administer the inoculations.