In New Orleans, some hospitals discontinued coronavirus treatment even as relatives begged them to keep trying.

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Sent Home to Die <[link removed]> In New Orleans, hospitals sent patients infected with the coronavirus into hospice facilities or back to their families to die at home, in some cases discontinuing treatment even as relatives begged them to keep trying. by Annie Waldman and Joshua Kaplan

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