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Virus Outbreak at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation all But Forgotten

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Lessons never learned for COVID 19 Pandemic 

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Wanaque NJ, The virus swept through the nursing home, taking the most vulnerable. Some of the residents on ventilators to help them breathe began spiking fevers and were rushed to the hospital in irreversible shock. And with a lack of rigorous infection controls, it spread like wildfire, leaving dozens of patients critically ill and sickening at least one staff member.By the time it was all over, 11 children were dead and another 36 had been infected.

Given their congregate nature and residents served (e.g., older adults often with underlying chronic medical conditions), nursing home populations are at the highest risk of being affected by COVID-19. If infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, residents are at increased risk of serious illness.

Yet according to Sen. Joseph Vitale, D-Middlesex, head of the Senate’s health committee, said the Wanaque outbreak graphically showed how any virus can significantly affect those who are immunocompromised.”
“And that’s what’s happening today,” he said.”,“But Vitale said there was never a full investigation into how the crisis at Wanaque began. And if there were lessons learned from the events in 2018, some may well have been forgotten.”

https://theridgewoodblog.net/nj-senator-codey-seeks-criminal-investigation-into-death-of-children-at-wanaque-center-for-nursing-and-rehabilitation/

https://theridgewoodblog.net/assemblywomen-holly-schepisi-continues-to-follow-up-on-the-adenovirus-outbreak-at-the-wanaque-facility/

https://theridgewoodblog.net/assemblywomen-holly-schepisi-up-dates-us-on-the-adenovirus-outbreak-at-wanaque-center-for-nursing-and-rehabilitation/

https://theridgewoodblog.net/total-of-28-adenovirus-cases-at-wanaque-center-for-nursing-and-rehabilitation/

https://theridgewoodblog.net/virus-outbreak-at-the-wanaque-center-for-nursing-and-rehabilitation-leaves-6-children-dead/

 

 

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