The federal government has decided not to quarantine coronavirus patients at the Fairview Developmental Center in Costa Mesa, according to a court documents.
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.
From our sister site The Tukwila Blog:
Brown wrote to Pence, describing what the state is doing to combat the spread amid three confirmed cases, and what its needs are.
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.