Nursing home with coronavirus outbreak reported shocking escalation from 'no symptoms to death

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The epicenter of Washington state's coronavirus outbreak has a disturbing status update.

Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, outside of Seattle, has seen 15 of its residents die after contracting COVID-19, and dozens of its workers haven fallen ill. The center's remaining 55 residents are going to be tested for the virus, and while only six of them are currently sick, that doesn't necessarily mean good news, The New York Times reports.

As the Times put it, Life Care "had seen some residents go from no symptoms to death in just a matter of a few hours." "It was surprising and shocking to us that we have seen that level of escalation from symptoms to death," said Tim Killian, a spokesperson for the nursing home. Efforts to contain the spread from Life Care aren't going well either, seeing as 70 of the center's 180 workers were out sick as of Sunday, but "there weren't enough test kits yet for them," the Times reports. Three of those workers had been hospitalized, and one of them tested positive for COVID-19.

It's important to note Washington state has reported just three deaths from the new coronavirus that weren't tied to the nursing home. Life Care is home to people who are elderly or recovering from illnesses, so those who died likely had weaker immune systems and were more susceptible to COVID-19. "Kids and adults have done extremely well in terms of recovery so far," Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency medicine doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, notes to ABC News.

https://news.yahoo.com/washington-nursing-home-coronavirus-outbreak-150127120.html

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Life Care "had seen some residents go from no symptoms to death in just a matter of a few hours."

Jesus.

[customerserviceguy]

2. Found out from my son

in the Seattle area yesterday that a lot of those working at and in charge of this nursing home are Chinese, and at least one of them went back to China for a visit. I told him that I had not seen that, he said it was on local news.

[superpatriotman]

3. These micro stories are what interest me

Too much big picture stuff not enough anectdotal information.

[customerserviceguy]

4. He tends

to be right wing, and he thinks that the national media is covering it up for reasons of political correctness.

[obamanut2012]

6. Or they had been sick for a day or three and the staff didn't notice

Benevolent neglect is unfortunately a reality in nursing homes, even well-staffed good ones.

[CountAllVotes]

8. A person I know dumped his mother in one of the hell holes

She took a bad fall and hurt herself badly.

She has recovered to a point but is now in one of these homes, aka an "assisted living facility" that cost $5,000 a month.

Now she suffers from chronic urinary tract infections, a type of infection that lives and breeds in nursing homes.

There is nothing wrong with her mind!

She is almost 90 years old and if it weren't for the bad fall, she'd still be living at her home which was sold a few months ago.

She has nowhere to go and he sure as hell isn't going to take her in!

SHAME!

& recommend!!

[Brainstormy]

9. if you're going to die from it,

I suppose that's the best progression.

[uponit7771]

5. Nah, don't buy tons of TP that's overreacting / sarc

[Quixote1818]

7. People who are in assisted living generally don't live more than two years. So their bodies are

already moving toward death at that point. Those who it killed so quickly may have had less than 6 months as it was. This doesn't surprise me.