Life Care Center call logs show early clues to deadly COVID-19 cluster
In late February, a staff member at Life Care Center in Kirkland made a phone call to county public health officials, describing an unusual pattern.
“We’re having a number of respiratory symptoms,” the caller said. “We did test them and they are all negative for flu, and we did send a lab, a nasal swab lab, that was also negative for flu.”
It was just before the nursing home was thrust into the national spotlight as the first identified cluster of COVID-19 in the United States.
Washington state seemed to be first center of the viral outbreak in the United States, following the growing number of cases starting from the first positive case in late January. However, news this week from California may shed new light on the spread of coronavirus throughout the United States.
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