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Psychiatric hospitals continue to treat patients, but keep wary eye out for virus
Patients in Virginia’s psychiatric hospitals are as captive as inmates in the state’s prisons.
They cannot leave until authorities determine they no longer pose a danger to themselves or others.
They live in institutions where keeping a safe distance from one another cannot easily be practiced.
They are at the mercy of whatever virus might walk inside with the next patient or with the next staff shift change.
Read more: https://www.roanoke.com/news/local/psychiatric-hospitals-continue-to-treat-patients-but-keep-wary-eye-out-for-virus/article_d07c503f-b2d4-5f16-b7e9-0cccb32cab6b.html
