7 Coronavirus Cases Reported At Revere Senior Living Facility

REVERE (CBS) – Health officials in Revere said Thursday there are 33 positive coronavirus cases in the city and seven of them are residents of the same senior living facility. The seven live at Jack Satter House on Revere Beach Boulevard. Five of the patients are hospitalized. One person died, though their official cause of death has not yet been confirmed. “When you see a cluster like that, that really raised a red flag for us,” Mayor Brian Arrigo said Thursday afternoon. Jack Satter House in Revere. (WBZ-TV) The mayor, in conjunction with the facility, ordered all 285 residents quarantined in their individual units. “We want them to know that the city is here to protect them, to make sure that they’re safe,” Arrigo said of the residents, who range in age from 64 to 101. “There’s a lot of essential things that people need, and we have people going out, getting things, bringing it to the building,” said Lou Woolf, President and CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife, the non-profit parent company of Jack Satter House. “We started implementing social distancing and visitor restrictions over three weeks ago,” Woolf said. “We are doing absolutely everything humanly possible.” Wayne Rose told WBZ-TV his mother, 88-year-old Virginia Rose Kasper, is one of the residents with coronavirus. He said she is recovering at Massachusetts General Hospital. “She was very fatigued, and then she had the shortness of breath. Then came the fever,” Rose said. V...
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