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11,000 deaths: Ravaged nursing homes plead for more testing

by Associated Press
| April 24, 2020 12:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — After two months and more than 11,000 deaths that have made the nation’s nursing homes some of the most terrifying places to be during the coronavirus crisis, most of them still don’t have access to enough tests to help control outbreaks among their frail, elderly residents.

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