On the Block: Could senior housing be a post-pandemic winner?
In February of 2020, a nursing home or senior community was the last place you wanted to be. Or visit. Or move to, if you were nearing a certain age. Just to recall the outbreak at Kirkland s
Life Care Center is to shudder.
Things look much different now, thanks to widespread vaccination within most if not all senior communities. The pandemic actually looks worse outside those doors than inside. If age was a risk factor before the vaccine(s), the demographics and economic clout of an aging baby boom may prove more powerful than coronavirus-related fears about moving into senior housing.
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Dr. Jeff Duchin, Health Officer, Public Health – Seattle & King County, addresses a news conference, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
One year ago this weekend, on Leap Day 2020, what was then the nation’s first known coronavirus death was announced here in the Puget Sound.
Seattle-King County Public Health stated that the death was a man in his 50s at EvergreenHealth Medical Center in Kirkland. Public Health Officer Dr. Jeff Duchin also noted a cluster of COVID-19 cases at Life Care Center in Kirkland, the greatest number of cases seen in one spot in Washington to that date.
Zero COVID-19 cases at King County long term care facilities for first time since pandemic Deedee Sun
This Sunday marks one year since the Kirkland Life Care Center reported the first COVID-19 outbreak in the country, but now the latest data are bringing new hope for the most vulnerable patients.
Deaths at nursing homes are down 78% nationwide.
In King County, last week was the first since the start of the pandemic that not a single case of COVID-19 was reported at long-term care facilities in the county.
A big reason behind the drop in deaths is because seniors are getting the COVID-19 vaccine.