Posted on 03/07/2020 5:20:40 AM PST by ncalburt
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8084659/Germ-fest-Mardi-Gras-party-Washington-care-home-sparked-deadly-coronavirus-outbreak.html
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And get trained staffing levels high enough to institute and maintain infection control.
They just need to invest in new decks of cards.
Just three days before the first cases were confirmed, in a resident and an employee at Life Care Center, in Kirkland, the facility held a party last week.
‘We were all eating, drinking, singing and clapping to the music,’ said Pat McCauley, who was there visiting a friend.
‘In hindsight, it was a real germ-fest.’
Dozens of residents and visitors were packed together in a room, where they passed plates of sausage, rice and king cake around, and sang as a Dixieland band played ‘When the Saints Go Marching In’ at the purple-and-gold-festooned Mardi Gras party last week.
Worried visitors told how the festivities took place despite the backdrop of a global health crisis and CDC officials warning that it was not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ the virus would be active in US communities...
Factual presentation of events, until the last paragraph full of fearmongering.
This same home was cited last year for failure to maintain proper anti-flu procedures. It seems to have been clean enough, but probably during the flu-season, they had too much access by family members, children, etc.
People who have compromised or fragile immune systems - ranging from the very elderly to people undergoing chemo or simply people with other pre-existing illnesses - need to be protected against too much public contact. They don’t need to be locked up in solitary, because I’m sure most of them would then rather be dead!
But in a setting like this, I think probably more caution, especially during flu season, would be in order. Not only with group events, but with family visits, etc.
Good golly. They couldn’t have done a better job spreading the virus if they’d used a crop-dusting airplane to spray corona virus liquid over the area. Having had parents in those places, it brings back memories of signing in, facemasks, “soiled” undergarments and crowded “day rooms”. These types of senior centers are just infected petri dishes waiting to happen.
My wife’s cousin went to visit his mother in a nursing home 20 years ago and he was having a nasty flu. My wife claims it killed her aunt and the other patients in the room. This virus is obviously potent but not the black plague.
“All these homes need to stop these events , visitors, group dining , and test all the staff . No St Patty Day events this year .”
Hopefully they will now. But still, tough to blame them, with all the happy-talk coming out of CDC and other branches of government. Heck, even the hot area in Washington State doesn’t (yet) see any value in closing their schools, even though they’ve told the parents to work from home, if they can.
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
No, it’s not. Another good thing is that it doesn’t seem to affect children that much, because small children are a reservoir of germs! Anybody who has ever taught kindergarten can tell you that!
So I think it’s good to be prudent on family visits. You’d expect people to be smart enough not to visit if they thought they had the flu or some other communicable disease, but they don’t seem to get that point. It’s very irresponsible of them.
I just got an email from my church that said quoted CDC guidelines:
“Amid a coronavirus outbreak in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is encouraging older people and people with severe chronic medical conditions to “stay at home as much as possible.”
I am an “older” person (70) but will be attending my church and my Bible Study Fellowship class this Sunday.
Wife and I are celebrating our 52 wedding anniversary by going out to dinner tonight and scrumptious buffet tomorrow morning. We both have had our flu shots and pneumonia shots are up to date. BE PREPARED!
Wife and I are celebrating our 52 wedding anniversary by going out to dinner tonight and scrumptious buffet tomorrow morning. We both have had our flu shots and pneumonia shots are up to date. BE PREPARED!
My brother had his quarterly appointment at Lourdes (liver transplant) Drs. told him to STAY homes. Luckily he enjoys fishing and goes to his favorite secret fishing holes.
Congratulations - and enjoy your dinner and buffet! Sounds good!
Glad your brother can fish and enjoy it! God bless him.
Is he staying home otherwise?
“Throw me something mister!”
Congratulations on your 52nd wedding anniversary, wishing you both many, many more happy and healthy anniversaries to come!
Conjures up a vivid mental image.
It ought to be common sense to restrict access into hese retirement/nursing homes, but it seems the parties must go on. A cloistered setting with compromised residents is an extremely conducive environment for infectious pathogens to spread and take hold. Just yesterday, Maryland reported an infected cruise ship carrier had visited a Rockville nursing home so look for another cluster to develop in Maryland.
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