Covid-19 Outbreak In The U.S. -- News Updates February 29, 2020

Daily Mail: Fears for 50 staff and residents at nursing facility after they are confirmed with coronavirus symptoms - two miles from Washington hospital where man, 50, becomes the first to die from the virus in the US and Donald Trump urges public not to panic

* 25 staff and 27 residents of the the Life Care nursing facility in Kirkland, Washington state, are showing symptoms of coronavirus, health officials said Friday
* Two new confirmed cases in Washington are connected to the long-term care home - with one female staff member in her 40s and one female resident in her 70s both testing positive
* The CDC and local health officials are sending an emergency response team to the facility to try to control the escalating situation
* A 'medically high-risk' male in their 50s died of coronavirus overnight Friday in a Kirkland hospital, just two miles from the care home
* Officials said the deceased patient is not connected to Life Care home
* There was initial confusion over the patient's sex, after Trump said they were a woman
* None of the three new cases had a history of recent travel and are being treated as 'community spread' cases
* Trump urged calm, saying 'healthy individuals should be able to fully recover' if infected
* Washington Governor Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency authorizing the use of the National Guard
* Community spread with no traceable origin has now been identified in California, Washington, Oregon

Fears are mounting for 50 staff and residents at a nursing facility in Washington state after they have shown coronavirus symptoms, on the same day that the US had its first confirmed coronavirus death and Donald Trump continued to urge the public not to panic.

Fifty-two staff and residents of the nursing facility where two new coronavirus cases have been confirmed are now showing symptoms of the disease, health officials said during a teleconference with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At the Life Care nursing facility in Kirkland, Washington state, around 27 of the 108 residents and 25 of the 180 staff have some symptoms, including some cases where individuals have contracted pneumonia.

The CDC and

local health officials are reportedly sending an emergency response team to the Life Care facility on Sunday to try to control the escalating situation.

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Covid-19 Outbreak In The U.S. -- News Updates February 29, 2020

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