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Washington State's Long-Term Care Facility Unable To Test Sick Employees

Washington state’s death toll related to COVID-19 rose to 22 following the deaths of three elderly residents from the Life Care Center of Kirkland.

More than one-third of its employees are out sick with symptoms consistent with coronavirus and Life Care officials say they don’t have kits to test them. KUOW’s Casey Martin (@caseyworks) has the latest.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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