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3 new deaths in COVID-19 outbreak as Kent, King County battle over quarantine plan
KOMO News Seattle ^ | March 6th, 2020 | by KOMO News Staff

Posted on 03/06/2020 7:56:56 PM PST by Mariner

SEATTLE -- Three more people have died from the COVID-19 outbreak in the Puget Sound area, local officials said, as the number of confirmed cases swelled to 79, including confirmed cases now in Grant County and Jefferson County.

The three new deaths were patients being treated at EvergreenHealth Hospital, where now 12 of the deaths have occurred, hospital officials said. One earlier reported death occurred in a patient never hospitalized and the other was a death at Harborview last week that was later found to have been likely caused by COVID-19.

The coronavirus crisis in Washington state has prompted a legal battle between King County and the city of Kent over the county's plan to repurpose a motel as a quarantine village for those diagnosed with COVID-19.

(Excerpt) Read more at komonews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: chinavirusmortality; chinavirusus; coronavirus; covid19; nursinghomes; seattle; seniors; wuhansarscov2
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3 more from the nursing home are gone.

And the city of Kent is trying to prevent King County from opening a "quarantine" in a local motel.

Kinda can't blame them as those who use it can come and go as they please.

1 posted on 03/06/2020 7:56:56 PM PST by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Notice the age of the fatalities. All sr. citizens.


2 posted on 03/06/2020 7:58:26 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Mariner

A nursing home.

Only where the weakest and most frail of our society are besides a hospice.

What a nightmare.


3 posted on 03/06/2020 7:58:57 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Mariner

Are there other nursing homes in the Seattle area that have had a number of patients diagnosed with this virus?

If so, is there something wrong with the staff at this one nursing home compared to the others?


4 posted on 03/06/2020 8:01:31 PM PST by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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“is there something wrong with the staff at this one nursing home compared to the others?”

When people started getting sick they did not get them tested for COVID-19.


5 posted on 03/06/2020 8:04:32 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: dp0622

now 3 nursing homes have confirmed cases there


6 posted on 03/06/2020 8:06:09 PM PST by janetjanet998
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To: Mariner

They boarded when the US Gov was still saying the risk was very, very low and the very few cases here were contained.


7 posted on 03/06/2020 8:08:59 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: janetjanet998

I wonder if the 3 nursing homes shared workers, therapists or admin?

Shared therapists are probably common.
But workers moonlighting a second job isn’t unheard of.


8 posted on 03/06/2020 8:10:51 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: CheshireTheCat
Cat,

Nursing home staff are low paid body managers. They are not equipped for this $hit.

Having this virus visited upon them was the perfect breeding ground for death.

9 posted on 03/06/2020 8:11:37 PM PST by onona
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To: DannyTN

Also visiting phlebotomists, podiatrists, etc.

Podiatrist$ make a boatload of money trimming the toenails of nursing home patients.


10 posted on 03/06/2020 8:13:49 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Mariner

I wonder about the hospital.


11 posted on 03/06/2020 8:14:30 PM PST by wiley (John 16:33: "In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.")
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To: dp0622

http://www.coronavirus-realtime.com/


12 posted on 03/06/2020 8:15:59 PM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or want gov't to interfere with corporate issues.)
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To: janetjanet998

What locations?


13 posted on 03/06/2020 8:17:02 PM PST by miserare ( Trump, forever and ever. Amen.)
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To: miserare; janetjanet998

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3822497/posts


14 posted on 03/06/2020 8:22:03 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: DarthVader

Notice the age of the fatalities. All sr. citizens.

....

You’re not supposed to point this out! These folks don’t like to mention this as it makes it sound like influenza!

These endless Coronavirus threads are for one purpose only...to whip people up into a frenzy!

FR is becoming a joke with these endless threads!


15 posted on 03/06/2020 8:24:21 PM PST by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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“These endless Coronavirus threads are for one purpose only...to whip people up into a frenzy!”

Calm down. Why all the exclamation points? Are you yelling?

The purpose of the threads I’m posting is to inform people of the situation in the Puget Sound region and California Bay area.

If you don’t want to know, don’t read them.


16 posted on 03/06/2020 8:29:11 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Artcore

Rush, is that you?


17 posted on 03/06/2020 8:35:24 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Mariner

LOL....talk about a ‘frenzy’.... :-)


18 posted on 03/06/2020 8:36:57 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.cuase)
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To: Jane Long

I know.

The only people who seem excited at all are those who want to compel others to share their opinion.

Kinda like Democrats.


19 posted on 03/06/2020 8:40:20 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

TDS mutation....into CVDS.

COVID CVDS :-)


20 posted on 03/06/2020 8:43:34 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.cuase)
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