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Stars and Stripes | More than 10,000 VA patients, 128 employees have now died of coronavirus
The coronavirus has killed 10,000 Department of Veterans Affairs patients – a grim milestone just 11 months after the first veteran’s death was reported.
A 70-year-old man at the VA hospital in Portland, Ore., was the first VA patient and the first person in Oregon to die of the virus, on March 14. As of Wednesday – 340 days later – 10,059 VA patients and 128 employees have died, about 30 deaths per day. |
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