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ARPad95

(1,671 posts)
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 12:38 PM Jul 2020

Covid-19 blazes through Central New York memory care facility

[link:https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/07/22-hospitalized-3-dead-as-coronavirus-blazes-through-cny-memory-care-facility-we-got-hit-hard.html|]

56-bed facility

Timeline

June 16 - staff member tests positive for Covid-19 and families are notified

by July 7 - 22 residents had been sent to hospital with Covid-19

as of July 16 - 34 residents had tested positive

Currently up to 3 deaths.

“We got hit hard,‘' said Kevin Hunter, chief operating officer of parent company Hearth Management. “It was a fast and furious outbreak, for sure.‘'


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Covid-19 blazes through Central New York memory care facility (Original Post) ARPad95 Jul 2020 OP
We Had One Here ProfessorGAC Jul 2020 #1

ProfessorGAC

(64,787 posts)
1. We Had One Here
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 12:58 PM
Jul 2020

Southern exurbs of Chicago.
26 deaths. I don't recall the number of cases, but it was very(!) high.
As I recall, 2 staff, 24 residents.
I've been in that place. It's not that big. 26 has to be 10% or more of everyone there.

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