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May 21, 2020 at 10:02 pm

AP count: Over 4,500 virus patients sent to NY nursing homes VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 4,500 recovering coronavirus patients were sent to New York’s already vulnerable nursing homes under a controversial state directive that...

White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx speaks as Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, right, listens during an event to honor of World Nurses Day in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 6, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) DCEV426 DCEV426

May 11, 2020 at 12:37 pm

White House recommends tests for all nursing home residents

WASHINGTON — With deaths mounting at the nation's nursing homes, the White House strongly recommended to governors Monday that all residents and staff at such...

May 9, 2020 at 7:58 am

NY’s Cuomo criticized over highest nursing home death toll VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has won bipartisan praise for rallying supplies for his ravaged hospitals and helping slow the...

May 3, 2020 at 8:46 am

Faced with 20,000 dead, care homes seek shield from lawsuits

NEW YORK (AP) — Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s nursing homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with...

In this April 17, 2020, photo, Dr. Allison Roxey, left, gives Dr. Thaun Ong a vial containing a nose-swab sample she collected from a resident as they worked with a team of University of Washington medical providers conducting testing for the new coronavirus at Queen Anne Healthcare, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Seattle. More than 100 residents were tested during the visit, and the results for all were negative, according to officials. Sending “drop teams” from University of Washington Medicine to conduct universal testing at skilled nursing facilities in collaboration with public health officials is one aspect of the region’s approach to controlling the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW205 WATW205

April 23, 2020 at 7:38 am

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

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...

A patient is loaded into the back of an ambulance by emergency medical workers outside Cobble Hill Health Center, Friday, April 17, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The despair wrought on nursing homes by the coronavirus was laid bare Friday in a state survey identifying numerous New York facilities where multiple patients have died. Nineteen of the state’s nursing homes have each had at least 20 deaths linked to the pandemic. Cobble Hill Health Center was listed as having 55 deaths. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) NYJM101 NYJM101

April 20, 2020 at 8:55 am

’Under siege’: Overwhelmed Brooklyn care home tolls 55 dead VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — As residents at a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, began dying in late February from a coronavirus outbreak that would eventually...

April 14, 2020 at 9:54 am

Deaths hit 45 at Virginia care home called ‘virus’s dream’ VIEW

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Ronald Mitchell worried about his mother’s care at a suburban Richmond nursing home long before she was swept up in one...

April 12, 2020 at 9:30 am

Nursing home deaths soar past 3,600 in alarming surge VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 3,600 deaths nationwide have been linked to coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, an alarming rise...

April 1, 2020 at 9:29 pm

Nursing home infections, deaths surge amid lockdown measures VIEW

Nursing homes across the country have been in lockdown for weeks under federal orders to protect their frail, elderly residents from coronavirus, but a wave...

An FDNY medical worker wears personal protective equipment outside a COVID-19 testing site at Elmhurst Hospital Center, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo sounded his most dire warning yet about the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday, saying the infection rate in New York is accelerating and the state could be as close as two weeks away from a crisis that sees 40,000 people in intensive care. Such a surge would overwhelm hospitals, which now have just 3,000 intensive care unit beds statewide. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) NYJMO117 NYJMO117

March 26, 2020 at 3:07 pm

On NYC’s front lines, health workers worry they will be next VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — A nurse died from coronavirus after working nonstop for weeks at a hospital where staffers frustrated with dwindling supplies posed in...