The coronavirus's rampage through the Kirkland nursing home

[tacobell fan]

Since the first positive tests came back on Feb. 28, 129 people at the Life Care Center nursing home in Kirkland, Washington tested positive for the coronavirus. 35 people have died. We investigated what went wrong.

 

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1 minute ago, tacobell fan said:

We investigated what went wrong.

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[nightkalalu]

As they struggled to cope with a huge number of patients, doctors said they are trying to dispel the myth that only the elderly are dying from coronavirus related illnesses.

"Fifty percent of our patients in the intensive care unit, which are the most severe patients, are over 65 years old," Dr. Antonio Pensenti, the head of the intensive-care crisis unit in the northern region of Lombardy, on Saturday. "But that means that the other 50 percent of our patients are younger than 65.”

Pensenti said that his team were treating “quite a few” patients between the ages of 20 and 30, who were in a “severe” condition like the older patients, although he added that the younger patients were “usually healthier and survived more.”
 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/coronavirus-italian-doctor-epicenter-outbreak-warns-world-act-now-n1165926