’Under siege': Overwhelmed Brooklyn care home tolls 55 dead

As residents at a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, began dying in late February from a coronavirus outbreak that would eventually take 43 lives, there was little sign of trouble at the Cobble Hill Health Center, a 360-bed facility in an upscale section of Brooklyn. Its Facebook page posted a cheerful story encouraging relatives to quiz their aging loved ones about their lives, and photos of smiling third graders at a nearby school making flower arrangements for residents. “I’ll be darned if I’m not going to do everything in my power to protect them,” Donny Tuchman wrote before things got worse.

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