What happened at the nursing home with the most coronavirus cases in L.A. illustrates how testing every person in a facility may be sobering, and helpful.
Brier Oak on Sunset, with 186 coronavirus cases, had by far the biggest outbreak in Los Angeles County as of Thursday morning. The nursing home with the second-highest number, Hollywood Premier Healthcare, reported 101 infected staff and residents.
“With that number, now you have to be concerned about the possible exposure of everybody,” Amparo said, because those employees had gone everywhere in the facility.At about the same time, a professional acquaintance who is chief medical officer at the Los Angeles Jewish Home had received about 500 hundred test kits from the city of Los Angeles. He offered to share half of them with Brier Oak.
Three of the residents have died, Amparo said. None of the employees has died or even been hospitalized, Amparo said. But she only learned the actual number of coronavirus cases at Brier Oak through the news, after the state health department released that information last weekend, she said.
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