Pat McCauley, left, holds a large bottle of hand sanitizer as she and her husband Bob gather groceries and other items left on their porch by their daughter, Cheri Chandler, right, Friday, March 6, 2020, at their home in Kirkland, Wash. The couple have been self-quarantined in their home during the past week due to having visited friends at the Life Care Center nursing home — which has become the epicenter of the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Washington state …
March 7, 2020
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March 7, 2020 6:49 a.m.
Nursing home showed few signs it prepared for virus outbreak
KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) — In the days before the Life Care Center nursing home became ground zero for coronavirus deaths in the U.S., there were few signs it was girding against an illness spreading rapidly around the world.