Every week, the medical professionals would come up with a new opinion on what to do. It was really a horrific situation, but. At least you won an Emmy. Yeah, but it was horrific. 80,000 people die here, 1.2 million in the country, and it was the nursing homes, because Covid preyed on the immune, compromised the elderly. So it went through nursing homes and it got into the nursing homes by the staff. Yeah, because the staff would go home at night, go home for the weekend. (1:10:14–1:10:27)
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Asserts that 80,000 people died in [New York] and 1.2 million in the country due to Covid, affecting nursing homes.
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