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Failure to count COVID-19 nursing home deaths could dramatically skew US numbers

  • Written by Thomas Perls, Professor of Medicine, Boston University
The Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington, had the first known COVID-19 outbreak in a U.S. nursing home. In Massachusetts, one-third of nursing homes now have more than 30 COVID-19 cases.Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images

In New York state, 19 nursing homes have each reported 20 or more deaths from COVID-19. A nursing home in New Jersey reported 70...

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