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Nursing homes with more minority residents had 3 times as many Covid deaths as those with more Whites, study finds



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Derede McAlpin holds a photo of her mother, 92-year-old Sara McAlpin, who was diagnosed with Covid-19 in Rockville, MD.Katherine Frey | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesNursing homes with more minority residents reported more than three times as many Covid deaths as those that had more White residents, a large study published Wednesday found.The University of Chicago researchers looked at 13,312 U.S. nursing homes and analyzed Covid data reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from May to December. They found that nursing homes where more than 40% of their residents were Black or Hispanic reported 3.3 times as many …

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