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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,956 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 04:07 PM Mar 2020

Coronavirus Deaths Tied to Nursing Center Came Earlier Than Anyone Knew

SEATTLE — The first public indication that something was wrong inside the Life Care nursing care center in Kirkland, Wash., came on Friday, prompting an alarming sign to go up on the front door: “WE ARE HAVING RESPIRATORY OUTBREAK.”

Since then, officials have announced a series of coronavirus cases, some of them fatal, from the facility, which has become an ominous symbol of the dangers the virus poses.

On Tuesday, the authorities made another jarring announcement: The first virus-related deaths tied to the nursing center occurred days earlier than previously known — and well before residents had been quarantined in their rooms.

A man in his 50s, who was rushed from the facility in a Seattle suburb to a hospital on Feb. 24, died last Wednesday. On the same day, another patient from the center, a woman in her 80s, died at her family home. Both of their deaths have now been attributed to the coronavirus.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-deaths-tied-to-nursing-center-came-earlier-than-anyone-knew/ar-BB10I1T5?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=hplocalnews

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Coronavirus Deaths Tied to Nursing Center Came Earlier Than Anyone Knew (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 OP
Outrageous Johnny2X2X Mar 2020 #1
If we don't start testing this is what will happen. onecaliberal Mar 2020 #2
do we have the resources stopdiggin Mar 2020 #3
That is why I just said if we don't start testing onecaliberal Mar 2020 #4
so..acording to article.. mshasta Mar 2020 #5

stopdiggin

(11,301 posts)
3. do we have the resources
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 04:18 PM
Mar 2020

(and tests) available to test all that should be?
(the answer I'm hearing is, "No".)

onecaliberal

(32,852 posts)
4. That is why I just said if we don't start testing
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 04:26 PM
Mar 2020

That will happen all over.

If we have money for fat Nixon to spend millions on golf, we have money for this.

mshasta

(2,108 posts)
5. so..acording to article..
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 04:39 PM
Mar 2020

old lady with fever ...inside infected facility have not being tested...because she have not being coughing???

other senior inside infested area have not being tested...
plus the nurses and emergency staff not wearing protective bio suits just a lousy mask and same gloves

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