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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Families were informed the other day that there was a confirmed covid case at my parent's residence. [b]It was a resident who went to the hospital for some other reason last week and then returned and started having symptoms a few days later. They have been taken back to the hospital.[/b] I'm told that staff were wearing protective gear while dealing with the resident while he or she was in quarantine after coming back from the hospital, but I don't have high confidence in how cautious they all are. All residents receive medicines and meals in their rooms now, so staff members are entering multiple rooms, and also helping multiple residents with showers, hygiene, laundry, etc. My father is relatively ok mentally, but there are lapses in his thinking and judgment, and his hygiene is questionable at this point.

I don't know if there's anything I can or should do, or suggest or send to him. I had already sent him about 10 days' worth of emergency food just in case staff or food stop being able to reach the facility (he's in an area that's near a national epicenter), but he insisted I don't send any more. I call every day. I worry about something happening, and him getting taken to a hospital, and me not being able to communicate with him at all because of overwhelmed hospital staff. He's in a very vulnerable situation and no other relatives live nearby any more.

I called him this evening and he coughed lightly a couple of times during the call. It freaked me out, but he said it was just because he had some food bothering his throat. He said he doesn't have a sore throat or any other complaint.[/quote]

I am sorry but that sounds like "if we didn't kill him the first time, bring him back. we will for sure the second time!"

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