For at least a week, coronavirus silently spread among the 120 residents, 180 staff and multitudes of visitors.
Feeling festive, Pat McCauley looked around the crowd as she accompanied a dear friend into a Mardi Gras party at his nursing home.
Three days after the party, McCauley was listening to a Seattle radio station when she heard the words “Life Care Center of Kirkland.”She had been following the news about the coronavirus for weeks, but until that moment, she had mainly associated it with the epidemic in China. They started a family in Seattle, where he worked for Boeing, and moved from there to California and then in 1976 to Brussels for his job with a telecommunications company.
Photocopied calendars in the lobby showed events every day — an outing to the Olive Garden restaurant, a tea party with a performance by an organist, painting with an artist. The couple left immediately. When they got home, Bob was fuming. He called Seattle & King County Public Health to urge the department to investigate. The woman he reached seemed uninterested.
And she read that more than a dozen nursing students at Lake Washington Institute of Technology, a public college in Kirkland, had visited Life Care the previous week. The same day, media reported that a total of six people in Washington state had died, all in Kirkland and three of them linked to Life Care.
“We should have been told there was a respiratory virus, and they should have canceled the party,” she said. “There was nothing in the original notice from Life Care that this was an unusual type of illness, or unusual in any way or manner,” he said. Cheri Chandler, daughter of Pat and Bob McCauley, holds a sign Saturday outside Life Care Center of Kirkland, faulting the nursing home for failing to warn visitors that they may have been exposed to coronavirus.On March 8, Pat felt feverish and took her temperature. It was just above normal at 99 degrees.
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