Between two Massachusetts residential and long-term care facilities, 103 veterans have died -- 85 of whom tested positive for coronavirus.
As of Monday, Soldiers' Home in Chelsea lost 26 veteran residents, with 19 testing positive for the virus. Holyoke Soldier's Home, which is currently under federal investigation, has lost 77 veteran residents. Of those, 66 tested positive for Covid-19. Another 83 veterans and 81 employees of Holyoke and 28 residents and 53 staff at the Chelsea facility have tested positive.A tent sits idle beside the entrance to the Soldiers' Home in Chelsea.Gov.
The US attorney's office in Massachusetts announced an investigation with the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division earlier this month into"whether the Soldiers' Home violated the rights of residents by failing to provide them adequate medical care generally, and during, the coronavirus pandemic.
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