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Discharging COVID-19 Patients to Nursing Homes Called a ‘Recipe for Disaster’

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NPR (April 20) Discharging COVID-19 Patients to Nursing Homes Called a ‘Recipe for Disaster’ In some parts of the U.S., the desperate need to slow the spread of the coronavirus is coming into conflict with the scramble to find more hospital beds.

Nursing homes have been the sites of some of the earliest — and deadliest — outbreaks of COVID-19. Some people who run such facilities are understandably leery of accepting new patients who might spread the virus.

Nonetheless, some of the largest states are now ordering nursing homes to accept patients who have been discharged from the hospital but are still recovering from COVID-19.

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