Sacramento health officials focus on Elk Grove senior facility where resident has coronavirus

www.sacbee.com ^ | 03/10/20 | THERESA CLIFT, JASON POHL, TONY BIZJAK, AND ALEXANDRA YOON-HENDRICK

[hapnHal]

Sacramento County health officials on Tuesday focused their coronavirus prevention efforts on an senior living facility, one day after families were notified that a resident of an Elk Grove home had tested positive for the potentially deadly illness.

Sacramento County health chief Peter Beilenson said his agency is trying to prevent a repeat of what happened two weeks ago at a nursing home near Seattle, where the virus has caused a reported 15 deaths..

Senior Living Elk Grove tested positive for the new coronavirus, according to an email sent to family members of residents Monday afternoon obtained by The Sacramento Bee.

It appears to be the first confirmed COVID-19 case in a California senior facility. County public health departments, however, have only released limited details about where individual cases are confirmed, so there could be more that have not been made public.

Beilenson lamented the lack of test kits available in the county.“That’s the one priority that we’re using our 20 tests a day for,” Beilenson said. “I know they have more than 20 people there, and that’s part of the problem of not having enough tests.

Beilenson on Sunday said the county has been hampered by having only 20 kits a day to use, but said that could increase to more than 100 a day at the beginning of the week. Those kits, however, have not yet been made available.

Quest Diagnostics, a private clinical lab, he said, has begun testing for the virus at a site in San Juan Capistrano and is expected to open two more test labs in coming days, including at a site in Sacramento.When all three Quest labs are operational, the company would be able to process more than 5,000 tests daily. Separately, two California hospitals and 18 labs are able to process coronavirus tests.

[hapnHal]

Nursing home resident in ELK Grove, CA tests positive for Coronavirus. It’s coming? And....Separately, two California hospitals and 18 labs are able to process coronavirus tests.
Who is this person and how did they get the virus?

[hapnHal]

and check this out in side Sacramento Bee article.

Officials reveal where Elk Grove child who tested positive for coronavirus goes to school

[PGalt]

We renditioned some seniors. They were useless eaters anyway. S.C. will now be under FED quarantine. South Carolina? No, Senior Citizens. Any others report to your nearest BIG GOV camps. You will be given GOV mints upon arrival. Our docs say they are good for you. Paging Dr. death with dignity Kevorkian. Doc Gosnell will watch your babies. Oops, sorry I forgot that word was banned.

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ElkGroveDan, please check in...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[11th_VA]

Am I the only one curious that whenever a senior care facility gets an infection, there seems to be no news/concern on who brought it in?

Perfect storm here - I suspect Asian health care workers are bringing it in (nothing against Asians implied)

[ElkGroveDan]

Thanks. While I don’t actually live in EG any more, I do have a lot of friends there and sometimes need to run errands over that way. This week however I am in Arizona, LOL