[eastexsteve]

I'm posting this to show that you CAN stop this from spreading. My daughter is running the isolation ward at the other nursing home in town, and she has managed to keep her cases down to 3, and no deaths. But, her staff literally sanitizes EVERYTHING that comes in, and they wear full PPE. They have been on full lockdown for a month now. No non-staff people are allowed in the facility. Doctor visits are carried out via video conferencing. Compare that to what is happening above at the other facility. They theorize both of these facilities were infected by a visiting specialist that was seeing patients at both facilities. My daughter and her staff was just faster at getting it under control.

[Buckeye McFrog]

This stuff does lay waste if it gets inside a nursing home.
It does require that level of vigilance.

Unfortunately many nursing homes are poorly managed.

[reasonisfaith]

You’re a little late.

This thing is already ending.

[trebb]

No surprise it can “be stopped”, but the regimen is unsustainable on a large scale basis.

[nuconvert]

Cudos to your daughter & others for their vigilence

[CharlesWayneCT]

Yep. They locked down all the young healthy people, and then actual medical professionals ran around infecting all the most vulnerable.

A majority of our breakouts in Virginia were long-term care facilities. Again, not because of visitors, who were barred, but they assume because some medical workers brought it in, and then spread it. One facility had most all of their people infected, and 46 deaths.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I think I have this virus. All week I’ve been tired as hell and been having trouble breathing and then I read when it starts off there’s no mucus? As Spock would say “Fascinating”.

[Larry Lucido]

Not sure why this is under News instead of Bloggers. Anyway, here is the correct title and the whole blog, which was only two paragraphs anyway. So now it’s not clickbait.

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Briarcliff Skilled Nursing reports additional COVID-19 cases

From Staff Reports

Briarcliff Skilled Nursing has updated its COVID-19 numbers. They are now up to 12 residents and eight staff who have tested positive for the virus.

24 residents and 10 employees have been tested, with six resident tests and one employee test coming back negative. They currently have four pending cases for residents and one pending for an employee. They have also had two resident deaths due to COVID-19, which were previously reported.

[central_va]

Steve, 99% of the population does not need to waste their precious little time on earth doing this. What is suggested here is only applicable to those few who come in direct contact with those who are at risk from COVID complications;