11,000 deaths: Ravaged nursing homes plead for more testing

by BERNARD CONDON, MATT SEDENSKY AND JIM MUSTIAN, The Associated Press

Thu, April 23rd 2020, 4:53 PM UTC

Jacqueline Vogel asks a question to the medical staff at a nursing home in Ammerschwir, France Thursday April 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

FILE - In this April 16, 2020, file photo, Richard Eberhardt walks along a corridor at a nursing home in Kaysesberg, France. Countries across Europe are struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic with the dilemma of leaving the elderly and others near death in enforced solitude or whether to allow some personal contact with relatives. At nursing homes, everything is done to keep out visitors who might be infected, and family members are almost always banned from coming to see their loved ones. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

FILE - In this April 16, 2020, file photo, Marie Lithard, right, and her neighboor Yves Chretien sit looking out of their rooms in a nursing home in Ammerschwir, France. Countries across Europe are struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic with the dilemma of leaving the elderly and others near death in enforced solitude or whether to allow some personal contact with relatives. At nursing homes, everything is done to keep out visitors who might be infected, and family members are almost always banned from coming to see their loved ones. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

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Jacqueline Vogel asks a question to the medical staff at a nursing home in Ammerschwir, France Thursday April 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

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