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Aristus

(66,307 posts)
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 03:32 PM Mar 2020

A homeless man under quarantine in King County broke quarantine and escaped.

He was seen getting onto a Seattle metro bus. Where he's headed is anybody's guess.

I hope my homeless patients stay safe. There's talk of opening the available rooms at local motels for the homeless, so they can be inside individually, or in small groups, rather than at the shelters, which are stews of contagion.

This would be a good course of action. I don't want patients with respiratory illnesses on the streets in this weather (or any weather, really...) but I don't want them cooped up together where they spread the infection.

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