Unlike any other hospital in the United States, the staff at the hospital in Kirkland, Wash., has faced the brunt of the rapidly escalating coronavirus outbreak. So far, 65 people who have come through the hospital have tested positive for the virus, a number that grows by the day. Fifteen of them have died — half the nation’s death toll — mostly residents of a nearby nursing home devastated by the illness. Caregivers who had been sent home into quarantine had to be called back to work to face the overwhelming task at hand. Sanitation and janitorial crews struggled to swab down rooms where even a trace of the virus could infect the next patient.

Source: New York Times March 11, 2020 18:26 UTC