The resident, and another hospitalized Feb. 24, were later diagnosed with covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men..., according to the facility. They were two of the earliest cases in the country’s deadliest cluster to date in the pandemic.
But the home’s managers had believed since early February that they were facing a surge of influenza, which was common for the facility, said a front man for the Life Care Center.
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Their focus on flu had persisted even though their region had been on high alert since the Jan. 21 announcement of the first U.S. case of the coronavirus in a neighboring county.
The assumption of flu had held as the managers introduced a policy on Feb. 10 discouraging visitors due to the spike in illness.
And it had continued after a senior state health official, in a Feb. 21 letter, urged all nursing homes to prepare for the coronavirus by checking hygiene and infection controls, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Washington Post.