Thirty-one more residents at the nursing home at the center of the U.S. coronavirus epidemic have tested positive.
As the deaths of their patients mounted, managers of the nursing home at the center of the U.S. coronavirus epidemic pleaded with authorities to send kits to test those who remained quarantined at the facility.
“They’ve asked us not to transfer patients unless they’re in an acute phase of symptoms,” he said. “Once symptoms hit a level of acute, when we feel we will no longer treat them, we will send them to hospitals.” Health workers have the skills and training necessary to care for patients who have tested positive but show no acute symptoms of COVID-19, he said.
Three staff members have been hospitalized, and one has tested positive, Killian said. Sixty-five of Life Care’s 180 employees have gone home for self-quarantine after showing symptoms consistent with COVID-19, he said.An additional 11 patients of the nursing home have also died since the outbreak began, but Killian said Life Care has yet to receive autopsy results that would show whether any of those deaths were caused by the virus.
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