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Saturday, 7 March 2020

Plans to turn Washington state motel into quarantine site spark backlash

EconoLodge in Kent to offer beds for patients who do not need hospital treatment – but city leaders fear plan is ‘ill advised’

A two-story motel in a city south-east of Seattle has quickly become controversial amid Washington state’s coronavirus outbreak, as officials rush to convert it to a quarantine site, while others push back, calling the plan ill-conceived and dangerous.

Officials in King county, which includes Seattle and Kent, have been gearing up to begin housing patients in need of isolation and a place to recover, but not active treatment in a hospital, in this 85-bed Econo Lodge in Kent, about 20 miles south-east of Seattle.

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