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Preventing COVID-19 from decimating nursing home residents requires spending money and improving infection control

  • Written by Kathryn Hyer, Professor, Director Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging, University of South Florida
Chuck Sedlacek, a patient at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington, smiles through a window at his children. Chuck has tested positive for the coronavirus. Getty Images / Karen Ducey

At least 11 people have died from COVID-19 in New Orleans nursing homes in the past week, just after the deaths at a Seattle nursing home weeks ago showed the...

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