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Pennsylvania nursing home gave some veterans hydroxychloroquine without COVID-19 testing

They wrapped the dead in body bags and raced back to treat the living, crammed into a nursing home that, day after day, played the somber sound of taps over the speaker system so the veterans who lived there had the chance to say goodbye.

Chrissy Diaz, holding a box of her father's ashes outside her Pennsylvania home, questions whether he should have been given hydroxychloroquine at the Southeastern Veterans' Center. He died in a nearby hospital. "They said nursing homes could use it. They assured me that it was safe, that the side effects were minimal," she said.
Chrissy Diaz, holding a box of her father's ashes outside her Pennsylvania home, questions whether he should have been given hydroxychloroquine at the Southeastern Veterans' Center. He died in a nearby hospital. "They said nursing homes could use it. They assured me that it was safe, that the side effects were minimal," she said.Read more
    by Debbie Cenziper and Shawn Mulcahy, Washington Post
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