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How did it get so bad in nursing homes? And how do we protect them?
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More than 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths in America have been linked to nursing homes. How did it happen, and how bad could it get?

Staff writer Olga Khazan joins James Hamblin and Katherine Wells on Social Distance to explain.

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