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Watchdog: Nursing home deaths up 32% in 2020 amid pandemic

by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
| June 24, 2021 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Deaths among Medicare patients in nursing homes soared by 32% last year, with two devastating spikes eight months apart, a government watchdog reported Tuesday in the most comprehensive look yet at the ravages of COVID-19 among its most vulnerable victims.

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