At the 'frontlines' of coronavirus, Seattle scrambles to contain outbreak

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SEATTLE — Vicki Todd doesn't understand how the nursing home where her mother was a former patient became the center of a coronavirus outbreak in the state.

"It must have been a fluke," the resident of Kirkland, Washington, said Wednesday.

As she and other Seattle-area residents wonder how a global pandemic landed at their doorstep, some are blaming a nationwide shortage of testing kits that made testing available to only the most vulnerable, which they say allowed the virus to swiftly spread.

Washington's death toll from COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, climbed to 10 people on Wednesday, and at least eight deaths have been tied to the Life Care Center in Kirkland, where another 50 residents and staff members were showing signs of infection.

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1. Every person who has been in that facility in any capacity

beginning a month before the first symptoms appeared in the first case there should be tracked down and interviewed all contacts with those persons need to be tracked and interviewed. Hundreds of investigators should be working on this right now. Facilities known to be focal points for transmission of the disease should be investigated this way. I haven't heard anyone mobilizing this kind of effort.