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Nursing homes, once hotspots, far outpace U.S. in COVID declines

By The New York Times
| February 25, 2021

Throughout the pandemic, there has been perhaps nowhere more dangerous than a nursing home. The coronavirus has raced through some 31,000 long-term care facilities in the United States, killing more than 163,000 residents and employees and accounting for more than a third of all virus deaths since the late spring.

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