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How to avoid infection after a COVID-19 death – an Ebola response veteran explains  

  • Written by Lucy Wilson, Professor of Emergency Health Services, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Workers wearing protective gear remove bodies of people who have died from COVID-19 from a New Jersey nursing home morgue.Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

As the grim reality of COVID-19 unfolds, families and health care workers in the United States are faced with dealing with the horrifying magnitude of deaths from this novel disease. This...

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