The mentally ill. The disabled. The elderly. The coronavirus hit hardest where the frail gathered
But for the notoriety of the killer that claimed his life, the 63-year-old man’s death at a rural hospital may have gone completely unnoticed.
also died within days. Out of 102 patients held in the psych ward, 100 had contracted the deadly virus. Senior centers across the country abruptly shut their doors after three of those who frequent a center in downtown Seoul tested positive for the virus. They had eaten at the cafeteria and interacted at the center, a public facility where many senior citizens take regular classes and spend their days.
Facilities and institutions where the already weakened are living in close quarters are ideal breeding grounds for pathogens in the best of times. A task force of physicians at South Korea’s National Medical Center overseeing the response to the coronavirus outbreak said the ward had no beds, patients spending most of their days on thin futons on the floor — not a typical standard of care for South Korea.Many of the patients were found to be malnourished, had issues with hygiene and atrophied muscles from rarely, if ever, having left the hospital for a decade or two, the task force reported last week.
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