As the Wanaque virus outbreak winds down, people are searching for lessons about how to avoid similar tragedies, according to an article on the North Jersey website.
The importance of hand-washing is an obvious takeaway.
Also,long-term care centers for children need more rooms for potential isolation purposes.
At Wanaque, there was no room to isolate patients until mid-November, when deaths and hospitalizations had created enough vacancies in the ventilator unit