3 Stanwood care home residents test positive for COVID-19

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

STANWOOD — A total of three cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed at a Stanwood nursing home with about 140 residents and 300 staff members, the Snohomish Health District announced at a Tuesday news conference.

One woman in her 70s, a resident of Josephine Caring Community, was confirmed positive for the illness late Sunday. At the time she was tested, she was being treated at a local hospital, according to the health district.

Health officials collected samples from seven patients and two staff members at Josephine, and two of those tests came back positive, said Dr. Christopher Spitters, interim health officer for the Snohomish Health District.

Josephine’s early learning and childcare centers, on the same campus in neighboring buildings, remained open Tuesday.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/3-test-positive-for-covid-19-at-stanwood-care-home/

[Buzz cook]

1. So a worker or visitor

carried the virus into the facility. Gotta wonder how this works out.

Do we have the resources to track this down? Is it even possible to isolate the 3 patients on site?

[customerserviceguy]

2. And Stanwood

is pretty remote from the greater Seattle area. My daughter-in-law got transferred to work there some years ago, and she ended up quitting the company that she had worked for out of high school to get another job at a store nearer her home in south Snohomish County.

I've heard stories of nursing homes disallowing visitors these days. But staff and deliverypersons are still a route for the disease to get into a facility.

[Buzz cook]

3. Not as remote as it once was.

But yes, not a major population center.

A delivery person? I hadn't thought of that angle.

[customerserviceguy]

4. Yep

I worked in the kitchen at a nursing home back in the early 1970's, we had to have all kinds of things brought to the facility. Food, medical supplies, even clean throw carpets (the kind Cintas changed once or twice a week). Plus, there are private doctors who attend to some patients who have acute needs, it's not just staff doctors taking care of them, those necessary physicians can bring disease with them from the world outside the facility.

Remember that it was a doctor who was Patient Zero in the Westchester outbreak that has now got New Rochelle, NY in a containment zone.