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Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:52 AM Mar 2020

Two elderly patients who tested positive at Seattle nursing home 'have recovered'

From https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-update-recover-cure-elderly-people-seattle-nursing-home-covid-19-a9415626.html

Coronavirus update: Two elderly patients who tested positive at Seattle nursing home 'have recovered'

‘That is a bit of good news amid what has been very dark news’

Andrew Buncombe
Seattle
Saturday 21 March 2020 02:39

Two patients from a nursing home at the epicentre of the US’s coronavirus crisis appear to have made a recovery after having initially been tested positive for the disease.

In a rare piece of good news on a day when the global number of deaths from Covid-19 passed 11,000 and the total number of infections soared to 260,000, a spokesman for the Seattle area care home said two patients who tested positive, had taken a second test after days of hospital treatment and were now considered negative.

“It’s wonderful news for us,” Tim Killian, a spokesperson for the Life Care Centre of Kirkland, told The Independent.

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Two elderly patients who tested positive at Seattle nursing home 'have recovered' (Original Post) sl8 Mar 2020 OP
Great, sl8! Very good news, isn't it? Thank you. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2020 #1
Thank you, s18 for the update. gademocrat7 Mar 2020 #2
Wow! That's great! Thank you. Squinch Mar 2020 #3
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