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Atria Willow Wood, an assisted living facility in Fort Lauderdale, reported on Friday evening the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 18 residents tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus.
As the impact of the coronavirus pandemic expands in South Florida, more residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities are being hospitalized with coronavirus-like symptoms and authorities are not being forthcoming about the locations.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, nine Atria Willow Wood residents died in Broward County, but not all of them tested positive for the infectious disease.
Marc Hahn, 72, lives on the first floor in Atria Willow Wood in Fort Lauderdale, where several people have died recently after contracting the coronavirus.
Atria Senior Living, the operator of the assisted living facility in Broward County where Gov. Ron DeSantis said seven COVID-19 patients were infected, issued a statement late Friday night in response to the governor’s stern warning.
Florida's governor tells operators of assisted living facilities to take responsibility for residents and states reasons why two residents have died from one facility.
Several Fort Lauderdale firefighters and one police officer are in isolation following three deaths at an assisted living facility.