U.S. virus death toll hits 11; feds investigate nursing home

[turbinetree]

Source: Associated Press

By GENE JOHNSON, RACHEL LA CORTE and MARTHA BELLISLE
15 minutes ago

SEATTLE (AP) — Federal authorities announced an investigation of the Seattle-area nursing home at the center of an outbreak of the new coronavirus as the U.S. death toll climbed to 11, including the first fatality outside Washington state.

Officials in California’s Placer County, near Sacramento, said Wednesday an elderly person who tested positive after returning from a San Francisco-to-Mexico cruise had died. The victim had underlying health problems, authorities said. California Gov. Gavin Newsom late Wednesday declared a statewide emergency due to coronavirus. Washington and Florida had already declared emergencies, and Hawaii also joined them Wednesday.

Washington also announced another death, bringing its total to 10. Most of those who died were residents of Life Care Center, a nursing home in Kirkland, a suburb east of Seattle. At least 39 cases have been reported in the Seattle area, where researchers say the virus may have been circulating undetected for weeks. Vice President Mike Pence was expected to meet with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee near Olympia on Thursday.

Seema Verma, head of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the agency is sending inspectors to Life Care along with experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to figure out what happened and determine whether the nursing home followed guidelines for preventing infections.

Read more: https://apnews.com/8a9f6fd50731fd4c63edb2b5f0e568f8

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Hey Seema Verma, you are sending CDC people to see if the home followed guidelines....................your fucking administration is more worried about the stock market and gagging any health officials with any acts of transparency......................and you want to know if the nursing home folowed procedures....................can you Seema Vrema tell the american public what those guidelines are.....................

Have you been into Costco lately they are only allowing five cases of water, they are selling out on disinfected wipes...................

[BusyBeingBest]

1. Just think of all the bus seats, doorknobs, self-checkout screens and buttons,

gas pump handles, etc. that may have the virus on them in Seattle. I'm already a germaphobe, and this would make me not want to leave home.

[Yavin4]

3. We'll have to wear plastic gloves.

And burn them before we get home.

[BusyBeingBest]

5. Seriously. I was just at an Ikea last week and usually

I like to poke around the showrooms, but this time we just went and bought what we came to get and then got out. Almost wanted to wear gloves but thought that would look weird, LOL.

[jimfields33]

6. I see lots of toxic fumes in the atmosphere just reading your post

I know damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

[Botany]

2. CDC figures as of today 100 confirmed cases in America

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html

Attn Donny: 11 out 100 is an 11% death rate not under 1%

BTW most all of the deaths in America were in one nursing home in Washington State.

[stillcool]

4. "lock them up"?

Great photo-op.