Testing the Soul of a Nation

What We Don’t Know About the Coronavirus Is Killing Senior Citizens by the Thousands

Bill Conroy
4 min readMay 20, 2020

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Members of the Georgia Army National Guard disinfect common areas in a long-term care facility located in Dawson, Ga. CC BY 2.0

About one-third of all deaths in the United States caused by COVID-19 as of last week were at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. That’s a total of 28,100 residents and workers at these facilities cut down by the virus as of May 11, according to a New York

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Bill Conroy

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