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Military ‘Burn Pits’ Trashed These Veterans’ Lungs. Then the Virus Hit.

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The VA has a database of veterans who breathed in toxic fumes in Iraq and Afghanistan. But it’s not warning registrants of the particular threat COVID-19 poses to them.

Spencer Ackerman
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