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Posted inCovid-19, Health, State & National

Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows

MATT SEDENSKY and BERNARD CONDON, Associated Press When COVID-19 tore through Donald Wallace’s nursing home, he was one of the lucky few to avoid infection.  He died a horrible death anyway. Hale and happy before the pandemic, the 75-year-old retired Alabama truck driver became so malnourished and dehydrated that he dropped to 98 pounds and […]

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