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If this actually happened, why did we not observe other incidents like what happened in the Live Care Center in Kirkland, Washington? 35 people died. https://w
by malandrew 7y ago
If this actually happened, why did we not observe other incidents like what happened in the Live Care Center in Kirkland, Washington? 35 people died.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/coronavirus-nursing-home-kirkland-life-care.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/coronavirus-nursing-ho...
This has ripped through like wildfire in highly vulnerable communities.
Also, would we not have observed a lot of medical staff becoming sick like they are now?
I just find it very hard to believe that this could have happened earlier without anyone noticing it given how it's greatly impacted pockets in very newsworthy ways.
Another example was that family in New Jersey where some members of the family died within hours of one another. 7 sick, 4 died.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/nyregion/new-jersey-family-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/nyregion/new-jersey-famil...
Even California has vulnerable pockets in places that would have been canaries in the coal mine.
- lurquer 7y ago"as many as 380,000 people die of the infections in LTCFs [long-term care facilities] every year." https://www.cdc.gov/longtermcare/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/longtermcare/index.html An increase of a several percent would not be noticed.
- altcognito 7y agoTypically the staff isn’t at risk for life threatening respiratory viruses. They might catch a cold, but it will look nothing like covid.