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New Jersey Investigates State's Nursing Homes, Hotbed Of COVID-19 Fatalities

More than half of New Jersey's coronavirus fatalities were at long-term care facilities, including nursing homes. The state's attorney general, Gurbir Grewal, has opened an investigation.

Coronavirus fatalities in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities account for at least one-third of the deaths in 26 states.

In New Jersey's nursing homes, the coronavirus has proved especially deadly: who have died from COVID-19 in the state were long-term care patients or

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