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Over half of Idaho COVID-19 deaths linked to long-term care facilities

by Thomas Plank Tplan
| August 5, 2020 12:23 PM

BOISE — State officials said during Tuesday’s AARP telephone conference that 58% of Idaho’s COVID-19 deaths have been linked to long-term care facilities.

“It’s tragic for the families impacted,” said Dave Jeppesen, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare; he added that the state was working with long term care facilities on creating more robust infection control programs...

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