CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Last week, a north Charlotte nursing home reported a handful of positive coronavirus cases, but Channel 9 learned that there may be more than 40.
A friend of one of the people who works at Hunter Woods Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Tom Hunter Road told us his friend is one of as many as a dozen workers who have tested positive.
He said his friend is at home wrestling with serious symptoms of the virus.
“He has a very bad cough. He started throwing up over the weekend, and he has a fever,” he said.
The outbreak has family of residents wondering how much worse it’ll get.
Last Thursday, Nicole Kennedy told us the facility waited to test her brother even when he was showing possible symptoms.
“If he had been tested on the 22nd when I asked, he could have possibly prevented some of the outbreak,” she said.
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According to Kennedy, there were 34 residents and 12 staff members who tested positive for the virus as of Friday.
Now, she worries the facility doesn’t have the staff it needs to care for her brother and others.
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