Many DKos readers live here in the Bay area, so this could affect you if you plan on visiting any local nursing homes in the coming days, or if you have (hopefully) already been to visit with your loved ones. A local nursing home has lost 21 patients in less than 2 weeks. Now, to some, this may not seem as particularly alarming, but for a home with a total resident population of just over 100 people, that is very unusual.

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