Questions surround second round of testing at pandhandle nursing home

GUYMON, OKLAHOMA — Six new cases of COVID-19 were reported Wednesday in Guymon by the Oklahoma State Department of Health.

Dan Stiles, the director of Heritage & WF and Mada Dunaway Manor in Guymon told FOX 25 Wednesday two if its employees tested positive for the virus through contact with workers at Seaboard Foods, a meat processing plant in Guymon.

Stiles said the workers were asymptomatic when they were tested and both have family members who work at Seaboard.

More than two-thousand workers at Seaboard Foods were tested for COVID-19 last week, according to David Eaheart, Seaboard Foods director of communications.

FOX 25 asked the Texas County Department of Health Tuesday for the results from the tests.

"This was a partnership with Seaboard. I would refer you to Seaboard for those numbers," Terri Salisbury said, regional director of the Texas County Health Department.

Eaheart told FOX 25 Tuesday the results would be back by Wednesday.

We called Eaheart Wednesday and never heard back.

During a press conference with Gov. Kevin Stitt Wednesday, FOX 25 asked Stitt if he had the results.

"I'll find out tonight exactly how many of those are positive," Stitt said.

We reached out to the governor's office Wednesday evening and had yet to hear back.

Meanwhile, questions still remain on what happened to the first round of testing done at Dunaway nursing home.

Stiles said all employees and residents were tested April 30 and that, "the lab apparently got behind and basically, we haven't gotten the results back yet."

Salisbury said a second round of tests were done May 12.

"The enhanced testing that the state of Oklahoma was doing across the board in long-term care created an extreme load on the laboratories and so there was a delay in the receiving of some of the results. Therefore, we decided to retest because of the situation in Guymon," Salisbury said.

"The results from the original tests have not come in yet. They were sent to MicroGen, who is still populating results and to expedite the situation we chose to re-test the facility because of the local outbreak, and the desire to be very diligent," said Shelley Zumwalt, working on behalf of the Oklahoma State Department of Health.

This is a developing story. Stay with FOX 25 for the latest updates.