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Health care workers prepare to check residents and workers at a long-term care facility in Albuquerque in April. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
The past nine months have been brutal for residents and employees of nursing homes and assisted living communities throughout the state.
Almost 650 residents have died of COVID-19 out of about 3,400 who have contracted the virus since the pandemic began in March.
That is out of a relatively small population of 12,000 who live in 71 nursing homes and 250 assisted living facilities around the state.
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Of the 9,600 employees, more than 2,700 have tested positive for COVID-19 at some point in the past nine months. Five staffers have died of the virus.
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