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28 patients, 16 staff at Cookeville nursing home test positive for COVID-19
28 patients, 16 staff at Cookeville nursing home test positive for COVID-19Adam Tamburin, Nashville Tennessean
Published 3:41 p.m. CT April 2, 2020
Link: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2020/04/02/coronavirus-tennessee-cookeville-nursing-home-confirms-multiple-covid-19-cases/5115715002/
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Twenty-eight patients and 16 employees at a Cookeville nursing home have tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said Thursday, exposing another hot spot in a region that is still recovering from a rash of deadly tornadoes.
Lee Rooney, CEO at the facility, Signature HealthCARE of Putnam, said the nursing home cared for "the sickest of the sick." He said the virus had moved through the building despite added safety precautions, including eliminating visitors on March 9 and screening employees for symptoms each time they entered.
The facility had 320 employees and patients tested for the virus earlier this week after two COVID-19 cases were identified.
The vast majority of the 44 people in that group who ultimately tested positive were "symptom-free," Rooney said, raising the troubling possibility that they could have spread the potentially deadly virus to others without realizing they had it.
Lee Rooney, CEO at the facility, Signature HealthCARE of Putnam, said the nursing home cared for "the sickest of the sick." He said the virus had moved through the building despite added safety precautions, including eliminating visitors on March 9 and screening employees for symptoms each time they entered.
The facility had 320 employees and patients tested for the virus earlier this week after two COVID-19 cases were identified.
The vast majority of the 44 people in that group who ultimately tested positive were "symptom-free," Rooney said, raising the troubling possibility that they could have spread the potentially deadly virus to others without realizing they had it.
One would think those who administer nursing homes would be on top of all the news and history of spread mechanisms for this virus, especially after the horrible nursing home case in Washington state several weeks back.
KY.............
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Back then, the area had lots of good, smart common-sense people. Since then, I fear the religious and political right has gained a strong foothold which would explain much of this denial of science we're observing in both church and business leadership.
Denial of science and refusal to investigate this pandemic beyond Fox News among officers of nursing homes and churches has deadly consequences.
Very beautiful area there by the way if ones knows the places to go off the interstate. Sort of like Lake Moultrie & Marian and Pawley's Island back around 1980 when I spent some time there.
One just needs to know the right places to go......