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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Mar 14, 2020, 08:16 PM Mar 2020

Coronavirus: Quarter of Seattle Life Care Centre's staff test positive for virus, officials reveal

A quarter of the staff at Seattle’s Life Care Centre – which has seen the bulk of coronavirus deaths in the US – have tested positive for the disease, health officials have revealed.

The centre, located in the suburb of Kirkland, has seen at least 27 deaths.

On Saturday, as the national death toll reached 57 and the number of infections passed 2,500, officials in Washington’s King County, which includes Seattle, revealed the toll on staff and carers at the centre.

The King County health department said of 95 of the 180 staff at the centre who had shown symptoms, 47 had tested positive for the virus, 24 tested negative, 1 had tested inconclusively and the results for 5 people were pending.

https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-quarter-seattle-life-care-232113986.html

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Coronavirus: Quarter of Seattle Life Care Centre's staff test positive for virus, officials reveal (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 OP
Well, that's not as bad as I would have expected, to be honest. BusyBeingBest Mar 2020 #1

BusyBeingBest

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1. Well, that's not as bad as I would have expected, to be honest.
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 08:18 PM
Mar 2020

When you think they are sort of ground zero and plenty of staffers never got ill, and even those who did show symptoms didn't all have it. That actually makes me feel a little better.

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