Coronavirus is again ravaging N.J. nursing homes. Here’s where it’s hitting the hardest. Posted Dec 06, 2020
For seven months, Shady Lane Nursing Home in Gloucester County was a happy exception.
In a state where thousands of seniors have died at long-term care facilities during the coronavirus pandemic, residents of Shady Lane were seemingly spared. A small, government-run, nursing home in East Greenwich, it closed its doors to visitors and outside contractors, instituted a “robust” testing program, and saw not a single resident test positive all through the dangerous days of the spring, its administrator said.
Yet despite the precautions, the deadly virus still managed to make its way into the 60-bed facility. And with disastrous results.
The first positive tests came in early October, after an asymptomatic employee is believed to have brought the disease into the building. Five days later, Shady Lane publicly recorded its first death. By late last month, at least 31 residents and 21 staffers had been infected with COVID-19 — and 13 residents had died of its complications, according to the state.
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Until now. And now, suddenly, almost all have it. Just in time for a couple paid weeks off for quarantine. How convenient. Nope, make them work with the positive prisoners. Why risk anyone else.
Please release every last one of the inmates on the front lawn of Mitch McConnell.
It will be an act of extreme kindness.
This is the same as at colleges. Cases just mean that it is very contagious. So is perhaps a form of a common cold that goes through a classroom.... in the old days. The diffference is that people don't get tested for other diseases with a 99.7 survival rate unless it is making them very sick with symptoms.
"Asymptomatic" = false-positive
Retest with different test kits. I suspect a bad batch of test kits.