“Crowding is like fuel for the pandemic.”
ABC News looks at how America reacted to the rising coronavirus death toll and unprecedented unemployment numbers in April.has been turbocharged in institutional settings such as prisons and food processing plants, public health officials said, and state data analyzed by ABC News now point to those facilities as a crucial focus as the virus moves from urban centers to deadly clusters throughout rural America.
A person in protective gear is pictured inside the Brier Oak on Sunset nursing home in Los Angeles, April 18, 2020.Public health experts believe that prisons and industrial work sites where employees are closely packed – like meat and poultry processing plants – are fast becoming transit hubs for the microscopic predator, allowing it to migrate effortlessly from person to person and then fan out into the community.
“In both of these instances, with poultry plants and nursing homes, we expect to find people who are working who have the virus, don’t have symptoms, and they need to go home” and isolate themselves, Phillips said. “So we know what we’re doing is interrupting the infection.” As the virus began to spread, nursing homes began instituting a series of measures to fortify the facilities. By the end of March, most homes had instituted bans on outside visitors. Communal activities were slowed or halted, group dining areas were shuttered. A number had devised strategies to immediately isolate residents who showed early symptoms of infection, such as a cough or fever.
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