Experts say testing can identify potential outbreaks among the most vulnerable. Governors in Maryland and Tennessee this week began requiring faster and more comprehensive coronavirus testing in ...

LANSING — Alice Stoecker's pleasant candor held strong when she told her son about her recent encounter with a nasal swab at a Delta Township nursing home. "Well," she told him. "They stuck this thing ...

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A patchwork of state and U.S. recommendations has hampered efforts to devise a uniform policy, leading to disputes over whether insurers or employers should cover testing costs. Shikilia Davis, a ...

HARRISBURG — Last week, under growing pressure to address the mounting death toll of seniors in Pennsylvania’s nursing homes, the Wolf administration announced a “robust universal testing strategy.” ...

NEW YORK (AP) — After two months and more than 10,000 deaths that have made the nation’s nursing homes some of the most terrifying places to be during the coronavirus crisis, most of them still don’t ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Sue McSweeney has been tested twice since Friday for Covid-19. So have her 20 employees at the Manlius Home for Adults, a small assisted living facility. Under orders from Gov. Andrew ...

Doctor Birx says all 1 million residents must be screened in the next two weeks. Vice President Mike Pence made a nationwide call for coronavirus testing in America's 15,000 nursing homes, telling ...

As Covid-19 cases rise again in nursing homes, a few states have begun requiring visitors to present proof that they’re not infected before entering facilities, stoking frustration and dismay among ...

California’s health department has issued new instructions to all skilled nursing facilities to test everybody in their facilities in hopes of slowing the spread of the coronavirus, a move that ...