Kirkland, WA - This is insane. 22% of the people in this nursing home have died since Feb 19th.

[kpete]

This is insane. 22% of the people in this nursing home have died since Feb 19th. Just under HALF have been hospitalized

Today at Kirkland see resident and staff data. Alarming.

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[blueinredohio]

1. Think that nursing home needs to be emptied and sterilized?

[LisaL]

2. Where are you going to send the residents that are still alive?

Most likely vast majority of them (if not all) have covid by now. So you can't send them to another nursing facility. They need care so they can't "self-quarantine" somewhere.

[blueinredohio]

5. I don't know but if some of them are lucky enough not to have the virus

do you just wait for them to catch it? Maybe sterilize a section,test everyone and whoever has no symptoms move them to that section? It would be a horrible thought that you're a sitting duck waiting to catch the virus and die.

[LisaL]

3. Not really surprising because covid is most dangerous to elderly with pre-existing conditions.

Which would be residents of a nursing home.

[beachbumbob]

4. more alarming is the incursion of the virus into the staff and how much they have spread it

[Danascot]

7. 70 of 180 employees are symptomatic!

Hopefully most are younger and are in age groups with lower mortality. Even so, many will suffer with flu-like symptoms.

[dawg day]

6. They've received 45 test kits? That's all?

I realize everything Trump touches turns to crap, but seriously, how can we have so deteriorated that a month after this became clearly a health crisis, can there be so few test kits? Especially when other countries have tested hundreds of thousands?

This nursing home is the worst outbreak, and they only got 45 kits?

[Ms. Toad]

8. And each person tested consumes at least two, and in many intances 3.

So tha tmeans at most 22 people can be tested, and more likely only 15.

They take two tests from each person - plus sputum if the person can produce it, according to an Ohio briefing yesterday.

[mmbrevo]

9. Fewer test kits fewer confirmed cases...

That sick nasty POtuS wants to keep the numbers down. It's a pyrrhic victory.