{"id":45824,"date":"2020-05-08T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/new-county-covid-19-dashboard-focuses-on-long-term-care-facilities\/"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:30:00","slug":"new-county-covid-19-dashboard-focuses-on-long-term-care-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/new-county-covid-19-dashboard-focuses-on-long-term-care-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"New county COVID-19 dashboard focuses on long-term care facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

King County has created a new online dashboard<\/a> following COVID-19 cases and deaths in long-term care facilities in the area.<\/p>\n

According to the dashboard, the Life Care Center of Kirkland has reported 45 deaths related to the novel coronavirus, the most of any other long-term care facility in the county.<\/p>\n

Trailing the Life Care Center is the Enumclaw Health and Rehabilitation Center with 23 deaths; Issaquah Nursing and Rehabilitation with 19 deaths; Richmond Beach Rehabilitation and Park Ridge Care Center with 18 deaths; and Redmond Care and Rehabilitation at 17 deaths.<\/p>\n

The dashboard is only naming long-term care facilities that have reported five or more deaths; facilities that reported fewer than five deaths were combined into one category.<\/p>\n

It also shows skilled nursing facilities across King County — as opposed to assisted living facilities and adult family homes — had vastly more COVID-19 cases and deaths than other long-term care facilities. These cases and deaths are not necessarily just residents of those facilities, but staff and visitors as well.<\/p>\n

Of the 52 skilled nursing facilities in the county, 36 (or nearly 70 percent) reported having COVID-19 cases, and as of May 7, there have been 200 total virus-related deaths in those facilities, accounting for two-thirds of all deaths inside long-term care facilities.<\/p>\n

Roughly 25 percent of the 148 assisted living facilities in King County reported having COVID-19 cases, with a total of 75 deaths; only about 2 percent of the 1,164 adult family homes reported cases, and there were a total of 28 deaths.<\/p>\n

The total of 303 deaths account for roughly 64 percent of all COVID-19 deaths in the county.<\/p>\n

Although the majority of COVID-19 cases involved patients at these long-term care centers, around 335 total employees at these facilities reported becoming sick, with two deaths. Additionally, 23 visitors reported contracting the virus, with another two deaths. A dozen cases more and one additional death are still undetermined.<\/p>\n

SYMPTOMS AND CO-MORBIDITIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patients that contracted COVID-19 reported having myriad symptoms.<\/p>\n

The most commonly-reported symptoms were cough and fever, which were found in 39 and 38 percent of patients respectively.<\/p>\n

About 27 percent of patients with the virus reported a shortness of breath, and 20 percent reported headaches.<\/p>\n

Less common symptoms were pneumonia (16 percent), diarrhea (14.5 percent), sore throat (14 percent), chills (10 percent), nausea (9 percent), acute respiratory distress syndrome (9 percent), and vomiting (5 percent).<\/p>\n

Roughly 32 percent of COVID-19 patients in long-term care facilities also reported “other” symptoms, which was its own category.<\/p>\n

A third of patients also had at least one more condition in addition to having the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

The most common co-morbidity (which only means concurrent conditions, and does not indicate death of these conditions) was heart disease at 18 percent.<\/p>\n

Other co-morbidities included diabetes (13 percent), some sort of kidney disease (10 percent), and lung disease (9 percent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The dashboard shows which facilities have reported the most deaths, as well as what symptoms and co-morbidities patients reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":612,"featured_media":45825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-45824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45824"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}