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Franklin County Leads State In COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths

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Ohio Department of Health officials say nearly 70 percent of COVID-19 deaths in the state have come from nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. 

That's roughtly two-thousand of the state's 26-hundred-plus deaths.  Franklin County leads the state with the most deaths at long-term care facilities with 273.  

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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