The new coronavirus has spread among several residents of a Seattle-area nursing home. Are other elder care facilities prepared to stave off similar outbreaks?
reported Saturday in another Washington state man in his 50s. That man was not associated with the Kirkland nursing center, officials said.
"That's very scary," Steinberg says."It worries me that once it gets going, it will be really hard to control the spread."Diamond Princess that was quarantined off the coast of Japan Duchin urged older people and those with health conditions such as heart disease, lung disease and diabetes to pay close attention to precautions such as washing hands frequently, keeping their hands away from their faces and avoiding people who show signs of illness.from the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine call for increasing hand hygiene, isolating infected patients and making plans to ensure that health care workers stay home if they're sick.
The nursing home cases are examples of community transmission of the virus, meaning the patients did not have a known history of travel to other nations where the virus is spreading or contact with a traveler diagnosed with the illness. Community transmission has now been detected in multiple states, including California.
of who could be tested for the virus and after states and hospitals were given more leeway and supplies to conduct their own tests.
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