Nursing Homes’ Unclear Death Toll Has States Testing Corpses (1)

Connecticut is swabbing corpses at funeral homes. Maryland is testing all nursing-home residents and staff, symptomatic or not. Coast to coast, governors have intensified efforts to get accurate death counts at the facilities as investigations suggest far more devastation than initially recorded.

In New York and New Jersey, tallies of deaths from the novel coronavirus surged in recent days after the states began disclosing more data on nursing-home residents. On Sunday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo added a requirement that all positive test results for staff must be reported to the state health department by the next day.

Medical professionals load a deceased body into an ambulance at the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center in Andover, New Jersey, on April 16.

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