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riversedge

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Wed May 20, 2020, 11:23 AM May 2020

Deaths from coronavirus top 1,000 among Veterans Affairs patients +30 VA employees




Deaths from coronavirus top 1,000 among Veterans Affairs patients



https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/05/18/deaths-from-coronavirus-top-1000-among-veterans-affairs-patients/?utm_source=clavis



Leo Shane III 2 days ago

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Robert Salerno, funeral director with McLaughlin & Sons funeral home in Brooklyn, wears a mask as he reviews a gravesite shortly after a burial without family present because of coronavirus restrictions on May 13, 2020, at Holy Cross Cemetery in New York. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)

The number of Veterans Affairs patients who have died from coronavirus complications rose to more than 1,000 this weekend, even as the number of active cases of the illness within the department’s medical system continued to decline.

As of Monday morning, department officials had counted at least 1,012 patient fatalities from the fast-spreading illness. Along with veterans in VA medical care, that total includes some active-military personnel and other community members being cared for by VA hospitals.

It does not include 30 VA employees who have died from the illness.

More than 12,000 VA patients have contracted the COVID-19 virus since early March. That total has increased almost 11 percent in the last week alone.......................
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Deaths from coronavirus top 1,000 among Veterans Affairs patients +30 VA employees (Original Post) riversedge May 2020 OP
I noticed they separated the numbers jimfields33 May 2020 #1

jimfields33

(15,462 posts)
1. I noticed they separated the numbers
Wed May 20, 2020, 11:48 AM
May 2020

I wonder if states are aware of this to either let the number crunchers know and not to count in state tally if they do let them know.

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