Man in his 80's.
https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Brazos-County-Health-Department-providing-update-on-COVID-19-cases-569192231.html

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Why was the post that the man was in hospice care deleted?

That is in the KBTX article in the OP.

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That was strange.

Because it was a callous statement about how the guy had probably already punched his ticket out essentially

BCS new cases today (9) - all community spread and throughout most age groups.

It said something along the lines that he was probably so far gone he didn't know what was happening

A staff member at The Isle (assisted living and skilled nursing) in Bryan has tested positive.

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It said something along the lines that he was probably so far gone he didn't know what was happening

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That is not what I saw, but having put several family members through hospice I do hope that was the case for this poor soul. I do understand hospice can be longer lasting and stretch into months in certain cases. My experiences have been that 75% of hospice involves severe medication and a lack of awareness as the body has committed to the death process.

Terrible story all around.

Awful to be in hospice and then get hit with COVID...Death just took a double tap cheap shot.

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A staff member at The Isle (assisted living and skilled nursing) in Bryan has tested positive.

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Good grief that's what happened at that place in Washington.

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COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (KBTX)- Jack Douglas Bryant passed away Saturday morning inside a College Station assisted living center, only three days after he was put in hospice care.

The 82-year-old from College Station had dementia, his family said, but no severe health complications prior to this week.

His family tells KBTX his health took a turn for the worst on Wednesday. He was tested for COVID-19 on Thursday afternoon and results returned on Friday revealed he was positive for the virus.

Cassie Schildknecht lives more than 2,000 miles away in Spokane, Washington. She was notified Saturday morning that her grandfather had passed away.

"He died alone. None of us could be with him by his side in his final days," said Schildknecht. "We were not anticipating him going as fast as he did nor him testing positive. The virus just expedited the whole situation."

"The worst part of it is that we're here in Washington and we can't come home to be with family," said Schildknecht in a phone interview Saturday night with News 3's Rusty Surette.

Bryant was a mathematician and worked in the math department at Texas A&M University for decades. He also worked for NASA and enjoyed statistics and data.

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https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Jack-Bryant-82-is-Brazos-Countys-first-COVID-19-victim-569196301.html

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Not originally mentioned in the article, he had been placed in hospice care at the facility (IIRC, there are two on Rock Prairie Road so didn't want to guess a name and be wrong) just 3 days before so he had to have been exposed while still at home.

There are at least 3 assisted living facilities on Rock Prairie Rd., I'm familiar with them because I spent a lot of time at two of them over the past several years. No need to name names, but of the two across from CS Middle School, one is a memory care facility which serves those with dementia and Alzheimers. The one at Rock Prairie / Medical Dr. close to S&W Hospital doesn't have a stated memory care unit, but has more than a few residents with dementia / early stage Alzheimers. I've had close relatives at both, visited about 5 days each week up until last year when my last relative passed, and I still go to one of them now and then to see other residents I met during that time.

The flu went through one of the facilities pretty bad in Dec. 2018 and affected 30-40% of the residents. I know this because I visited at dinner time most days, and the dining room was half empty for a few weeks. My relative was one of the flu victims, and he and 3-4 others never recovered from it. My relative passed while on hospice, he had a couple of prior medical issues earlier in the year and had been a candidate for hospice twice but didn't "qualify" until the third hospice evaluation when he stopped eating and drinking after getting sick during the flu outbreak.

After my experiences, in my opinion you really can't reach any conclusion on what was truly responsible for today's death or the deaths of my relatives, unless autopsies are performed. In my cases, one had Alzheimers but died from cancer. The one with the flu had "Alzheimers" as the cause of death on the death certificate. In both cases, drilling down into the distinct or finite causes of death was not a priority of the families. It is with some families, but not with others.

Here.

Second death, woman in her 90s.

https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Second-COVID-19-death-four-new-cases-in-Brazos-County-569202221.html

Looks like we have a local nursing home infected. Both deaths were residents of the same nursing home.

The Waterford is the nursing home with both residents and staff infected.

This doesn't surprise me because of the number of EMS runs that have been dispatched there in the last week. I had thought about mentioning it, but figured it's not uncommon for nursing homes to have medical calls on a regular basis and perhaps it was just random chance. Also, didn't want to post the name and then be wrong.

https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/KBTX-INVESTIGATES-Possible-outbreak-of-COVID-19-at-local-assisted-living-center-569235751.html