A woman visits her mother, 81, who tested positive for coronavirus at Life Care Center of Kirkland, the Seattle-area nursing home at the epicenter of one of the biggest coronavirus outbreaks in the United States. The pandemic, and the subsequent lockdowns imposed around the world left thousands of people longing for physical touch, for a hug, for love and for some semblance of what life used to be. (Credit: Reuters)
Almost 43,000 people have succumbed to Covid-19 in New York, more than any other state in the US.
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New York state may have undercounted by 50 percent the number of people in nursing homes who died from coronavirus, its attorney general said Thursday.
Almost 43,000 people have succumbed to Covid-19 in New York, more than any other state in the US.
New York officials say that around 8,500 of those were elderly people in care homes.
But in a 76-page report, Attorney General Letitia James said she had found…
