Kirkland college reflects a year after nursing students exposed in first US COVID-19 outbreak
Lake Washington Insitute of Technology was one of the first schools in the US affected by COVID-19 after students and instructors were exposed at Life Care Center Author: Ted Land Updated: 10:35 PM PST March 3, 2021
KIRKLAND, Wash It s been a year since students and instructors at Lake Washington Institute of Technology were exposed to COVID-19 at the nursing home that became the center of the first known U.S. outbreak.
Because of that, the college located in Kirkland became one of the first in the U.S. to take swift actions in response to the coronavirus, with very little information or guidance.
On Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, registered nurse Diane Miller pulls on an N-95 mask as she enters the red zone before heading into a patient s room in the COVID Acute Care Unit at UW Medical Center in Montlake in Seattle. (Elaine Thompson/AP)
A couple of Saturdays ago, I slept in until 11 a.m. I haven’t done that since college. As I peeled myself out of bed, I convinced myself
it was just one of those days. I must’ve needed the sleep, and a lot of it.
When my phone rang, I felt torn between desperately wanting to talk to friends and family to ease my social isolation, and feeling emotionally drained from my day-to-day work as a psychiatrist. That Saturday, I silenced the incoming call.
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Xavier’s family and friends call her Bea. Her older brother, Joe Xavier, helped give her that name. At the end of November, that same older brother checked into Pilot Station’s health clinic a day before she did. They both had COVID-19, were struggling to breathe, and were put on oxygen. Xavier said that her brother was doing worse than her, so she fought to recover quickly so that he could use her oxygen concentrator in conjunction with his own.
“When my breathing got good, I gave my oxygen to him. He need it more than I do,” Xavier said.
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