My folks live in an "assisted living facility". It's a lower level of care than the WA facility, which was a "skilled nursing facility" AKA Nursing Home, where most folks are bed ridden, in a wheelchair, or have some illness that requires constant monitoring by skilled persons, like an RN or better.
But to your point, the place where my folks live is VERY serious about colds, flu, or any illness. In assisted living, a flu infection carries a very high risk of death, and will more likely than not require hospitalization. Sadly, many if not most of the patients at the WA Nursing Home will not survive this bug. Hopefully this small outbreak is contained, and does not become a large outbreak.
Contact tracing in western Washington is now impossible. Yesterday’s soccer match with 40,000 in attendance would provide far too many vectors now.
We here in Washington are going to become America’s version of Wuhan for cases I’m afraid. I hope not...
sick employees in nursing homes or even hospitals do not call in very much when they are sick.....the management will council you about you using your sick time and if you run out of sick time, and you call in sick, you are basically fired....that is why sickly employees come to work...they have to....