four of the people who died were from
the life care center
Colleen Mallory is worried about her
elderly mother her roommate was very
sick they were isolated to her room not
allowed to go out in the hall or to the
dining room or anywhere well I found out
today that a roommate has been taken out
of there so I'm assuming she has a virus
all those who died were admitted to the
Evergreen health center which is
isolating new patients and taking extra
measures to protect frontline workers we
expect the number of cases will continue
to increase in the coming days and weeks
and we're taking this situation
extremely seriously
also there's growing concern over a
person to person spread in the community
unfortunately we are now starting to
find more COBIT 19 cases in Washington
that appear to be acquired locally here
in Washington and we now know that the
virus is actively spreading in some
communities here in Washington on the
streets some are on edge when we were at
Costco yesterday they didn't have any
rice in dignity flour this man is in the
high-risk category over 60 with a
compromised immune system we don't go to
events we were gonna go to a movie
theater the other day we cancelled that
is you have no control about who's
around you and or the surfaces and is
disinfecting that's a really big deal
others are stockpiling supplies I just
saw the news this morning like more
people with the virus with not enough
spare hospital beds the state's governor
announced they're buying an entire motel
to house people facing quarantine we
have moved to a new stage in the fight
to contain mitigate and manage this
outbreak for officials the balancing act
here is to get people to take this
seriously enough that they take
precautions but not so much that they
panic
Greg Rasmussen CBC News Kirkland
Washington