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Last April, Washington state fined Life Care $67,000 over infection-control deficiencies following two flu outbreaks. read more...
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Two more residents of King County, Washington, have died from the coronavirus, bringing the state’s total to nine, as a top health official tells US senators he is deploying more personnel to a Kirkland hospital where most of the patients died. The two additional victims actually died before the previously reported deaths, on February 26.
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Most of those who died were residents of Life Care Center, a nursing home in Kirkland, a suburb east of Seattle.
Last April, Washington state fined Life Care $67,000 over infection-control deficiencies following two flu outbreaks.
The House passed an $8.3 billion measure to speed development of vaccines and new medicines to battle the virus, pay for containment operations, and beef up preparedness.
The death of a Placer County man has raised questions about the cruise ship he was on and whether the virus is spreading in certain parts of the state.