**Extraordinary scene unfolding right now at St. Joseph's Senior Nursing Home in Woodbridge, NJ**

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Steven Bognar @Bogs4NY

Extraordinary scene unfolding right now at St. Joseph's Senior Nursing Home in #Woodbridge, NJ...
94 residents (24 diagnosed with #Coronavirus ... 70 presumed positive) being moved one-by-one to another facility for further care after St. Joe's staff became sick #nbc4ny










10:51 AM - Mar 25, 2020

[getagrip_already]

1. useless eaters....... (sarcasm) n/t

[DarthDem]

2. Oh, How Sad

[Jirel]

3. Those poor elders.

I hope a lot of them survive this.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[OnDoutside]

5. This is only the beginning. If there's a hell, not even the devil would have Trump.

Bastardo.

[BComplex]

53. Trump rules hell.

And his demon spawn are spreading his evil.

[bronxiteforever]

6. Kick

[dewsgirl]

7. Heartbreaking.💔😭

I wonder how many residents overall live there?

[Dennis Donovan]

8. 94 residents (60 Assisted-living beds, 51 Nursing beds per their website)

https://www.stjosephseniorhome.org/st-joseph/

The facility consists of a 60-bed Assisted Living and a 51-bed Nursing Center. Private and semi-private rooms are available, including some units with kitchenettes on AL side. The Senior Residence, which was converted into a Comprehensive Personal Care Home in 1996, provides care under the supervision of registered nurses and other medical professionals.

[Wounded Bear]

9. This is what happened in Kirkland WA in Feb...

though they waited to long, partly due to no testing and it being on the leading edge. Noboy really understood what was happening there. We didn't really know what they were dealing with at first. 22% of residents died at last report.

[LisaL]

10. What facility are they moving to?

Hopefully an empty one, with no other residents?

[RT Atlanta]

11. Damn...

those could be my grandparents and great aunts & uncles.

Thank you to the team helping to move the residents out and sending what I hope are not useless positive vibes and energy their way.

#interestingtimes

[Snarkoleptic]

12. Awful times to be on this rudderless ship.

n/t

[cstanleytech]

14. Trump makes an offer to travel to 1912 for a free ocean cruise on the RMS Titanic look safer than

any ship Trump might be the captain of.

[Squidly]

51. Oh...

But he alone could have saved it from sinking!!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

13. That

Is so sad,but glad they're being cared for and protected.I hope wherever they go is safe. Want a fast recovery for any staff that have covid19.

[Orrex]

15. These are among the 2.5M+ that Herr Trump wants to die in his Final Solution

All in a futile effort to pump up the economy.

[ancianita]

16. The irony: immobile olds couldn't have gotten it unless staff brought it in from outside.

Once they're both gone, St. Joe's will see who continues to get it, likely learning the slow way, just how its handling contamination hasn't helped stop it.

[CaptYossarian]

18. Couldn't it have been a relative?

[ancianita]

24. Ah, of course. My oversight. Less likely only because of infrequency of contact compared to staff.

I wonder if this will get followed up on, since it's gotten attention. Getting some model of practices that increase the likelihood, or directly lead to contamination might be good for both patients, St. Joe's, and the rest of America.

No sense wanting olds to die if they become contamination hotspots that end up killing others -- it's like stupidly wanting one's own death warrant.

[CaptYossarian]

26. You're right about the infrequency.

I haven't seen my dad since September, when I got my transplants and have no immune system because of the anti-rejection meds.

I've been in 2 rehab facilities that quarantined with the flu and was told by doctors to stay away from his assisted living at all times.

[iluvtennis]

17. So sad. Sending up a prayer for their recovery. Glad the positive step to move these seniors

to another facility is being done.

[Danmel]

19. Tragic. And they are going through it alone

Every day my heart breaks more.

[DENVERPOPS]

20. Coming soon

to a town/city near you.......

[wnylib]

47. OMG. There are 3 large nursing homes

in my community. One is a HUGE center, like a small village. If it hits there it will be devastating.

[DENVERPOPS]

49. Colorado Springs, Co

Just got a taste of what happens when you put a large group of seniors together for a Bridge Tournament and one of the attendees has Corona, but not yet symptomatic.......

If the Red states and cities think they will be spared and immune, tell them to check in with Florida, New Orleans, and C.Springs co.....

[Botany]

21. This was 100% preventable

Thanx Donny.

We did not need a global pandemic response team

We did not need that epidemiologist in China from the CDC watching out for potential global pandemics

We did not need scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine (SARs) that was defunded in 2018

We did not need those W.H.O.'s C-19 test kits

We did not need to know about the late Jan./early Feb. C-19 case in Seattle that was discovered by
Seattle's Dept. of Health and the University of Washington. (Trump's CDC told them not to talk about
their findings and to stop testing.)

[stillcool]

32. thank you..I start

forgetting and the chronology starts to change. My god, this Presidency will fill an entire encyclopedia.

[Botany]

35. I forgot that the Trump administration was told about the treat of a global pandemic was to ....

... America the world in Jan. of 2017.

[Historic NY]

22. Nursing home where I live several patients testing positive...

no visitors were supposed to be allowed into the premise. Some residents are assisted living but are able to go out and some drive. So the answer is?

[DallasNE]

28. Nothing Is Foolproof

Because an individual can be a carrier 2-3 days before the first symptom shows up.

Perhaps these steps were even done, but taking the temp of everybody before they are allow to enter the facility and also take the temp of each resident at least once daily. They have temple thermometers that are fast, easy and accurate. Wipe the thermometer head after each test with an alcohol wipe. After each elevated temp start a new wipe.

You don't go from zero to 24 in one day without there being a breakdown somewhere.

[Historic NY]

31. Place abutts a closed school and is near the EMS services.

Some vets live there. I see the AL is closed so perhaps they go out wandering.

[DallasNE]

23. How Was That Allowed To Progress To That Level

There had to be regulations in place governing people that come and go at that facility. Apparently they were ignored and this is the consequence. Heartbreaking.

[stillcool]

36. medical personnel?

deliveries? Since there is no testing, they'd have to start getting sick before anyone would know. Then it's too late...for everyone.

[Chainfire]

25. Steel your hearts or close your eyes, this is the New Reality

We best get used to these kinds of scenes; we are at the beginning.

[lpbk2713]

27. That truly is extraordinary.

I hope the patients are treated with dignity. Not like so much radioactive meat.

[pazzyanne]

29. I read this just this morning.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/spanish-soldiers-find-corpses-inside-nursing-home-disinfecting/story?id=69774071

Hopefully we will not let this happen here! It is just heartbreaking.

[doc03]

30. I fear this is going to happen on a much larger

scale in places like Florida where they have huge
retirement communities.

[The Magistrate]

33. Horrible, Sir

Heartbreaking.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

34. Nursing homes tend to be chronically understaffed.

And those working there are chronically underpaid.

You get what you pay for is sadly true here. Many people cannot afford to pay the market rate for a high-quality facility, thanks in no small part to a for-profit health care system.

But as sad as this is, it's not as bad as what's happened in Spain where staff apparently walked completely out of one or more nursing homes, leaving patients to die in their beds.

[Generic Other]

37. If an agn0stic's prayers carried any weight

I'd send them.

[C Moon]

38. I'm glad they are showing this on the news.

[MissB]

39. Ugh. This is just so heartbreaking

My grandparents are long since dead; most of them passed a couple of decades ago.

My father passed a few years back. My mother is right at the vulnerable age being in her early 80s, as are my in-laws.

I worry about all of them, but am strangely grateful that none of them are in a care facility. They are still living in their homes.

Doesn’t mean they aren’t vulnerable- just perhaps less so. Care homes just seem like a terrible place to be and they shouldn’t seem that way.

[marble falls]

40. Crisis Actors? All RW talk show hosts need to be off the air and off the Net. This is an inkling ...

of what is coming. This what a Pandemic looks like.

[PCIntern]

41. Didn't you know?

Many people are saying that it’s the same people from Sandy Hook School in Connecticut, right??? Yeah, that’s the ticket.

just in case...


Those fuckers...

[marble falls]

42. They sure grew up fast! If Trump had his way they'd be taken to the Soylent Green factory.

[SledDriver]

43. This hits close to home.

Wow.

[hkp11]

44. me too...

Woodbridge just 15 mins away from me...

[FelineOverlord]

46. me too...

I live in New Jersey, too.

My mother-in-law lives in a nursing home in New Jersey and they banned all non-medical visitors several weeks ago.

It's been hard for the family not to visit her or take her out but we all understand it's for the best. I had warned my husband that it would happen.

Of course, staff could go out after work and becoming infected and bring it back, so hopefully they are taking precautions.

Looks like they are taking them to Morris County.

Link to tweet

?s=20

[hkp11]

54. wishing your MIL the best

hope the virus does not spread to her nursing home...it is very hard to not be in physical contact with loved ones. My MIL will not leave the house right now. She asks that all wash theirs when coming into the house. She is very scared of catching it, since she has asthma, high blood pressure, etc. She's in her 80's, so understandable.

Praying that this virus comes to an end soon!!!

[Tucker08087]

45. Those people moving them

have HazMat suits, with respirators. Not saying they shouldn’t. I’m pointing out that if THIS is the recommended gear, our doctors, nurses, and medical staff are not going to do well, and this virus won’t be stopped by uneducated/uncaring people deciding whether or not to practice social distancing or the local Wendy’s deciding on their own that their take-out window is “essential.”

[projectiboga]

48. thirty some miles. several counties over

They are moving them to an empty facility owned by the same corporate manager Care1. Maps give a driving distance of 32, 33 miles. and it is several counties over, too.

[Demovictory9]

50. Kick

[edbermac]

52. Let's get those freeloaders back to work!