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Veterans Saw Friends Die From COVID. Then It Got Worse.

‘WE ARE HUMANS’
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At least 47 people in a long-term VA care facility in New Jersey died from coronavirus. Employees and residents describe a lockdown that never ended—and the mental toll it took.