nursing homes

http://chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-nursing-home-cases-illinois-20200529-26wghmvvlvdm5iipeue7rttclu-story.html

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Coronavirus devastation reigns in long term care facilities.

http://nytimes.com/2020/05/22/health/coronavirus-nursing-homes.html

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Frightening situation in nursing homes. Focus on infection control, better design of facility layout, and encourage staff to work one job to avoid multiple infection points. May not be much that can be done presently. But let’s learn from past mistakes and do better in the future.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mike-pence-test-nursing-home-residents-staff/story?id=70624362

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Should be interesting to find out the test results. Must be sky high rates based on the number of cases confirmed so far.

http://sj-r.com/news/20200429/two-residents-from-villas-die-bringing-total-to-7

Click to read. This is one of the largest death totals for downstate Illinois nursing facilities.