Is the Virus on My Clothes? My Shoes? My Hair? My Newspaper?

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39. I know of one case

The assisted living place where my mom lives had shut down the facility to any visitors way back in early March. My brother had to leave the supplies he buys for her, at the door. Inside they were taking temperatures of residents daily and supposedly using clean techniques. The residents have to stay in their rooms, and meals are in their rooms only. And they still got a case of the virus inside. What I've been told is that one of the part-time care givers, who also works at another facility, tested positive two weeks ago. She had not shown symptoms and was working at mom's place up to the time she was tested. I can't imagine how many elderly people she could have infected between the two facilities before they found out she had the virus. (I don't know if she started showing symptoms and that's why she tested or what. I assume that's the case. I also don't know what kind of procedures the staff has to go through when coming into the facility)

After she was shown positive the facility had some kind of professional cleaners come in and sanitize the whole place and are now taking resident's temps twice a day. Since the aide had been in contact with my mom the day she later tested positive we've been concerned and are hoping mom will be ok. She will be 94 next month and other than type 2 diabetes she's reasonably healthy for her age. But it's still pretty scary. I haven't had any recent updates on whether any of the residents have gotten ill, so I hope that is a good sign.