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In this March 11, 2020, photo, Scott Sedlacek, right, who has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, wears a mask as he stands near reporters and listens to a spokesman for Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., during a daily press briefing. Sedlacek's father, Chuck, who also has tested positive, lives in the facility, which has been at the center of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in the state, and Sedlacek said he and his siblings have barely spoken to their father, who has blindness and neuropathy, and difficulty using a phone, saying he is more of an "inmate" than a patient. Residents of assisted living facilities and their loved ones are facing a grim situation as the coronavirus spreads across the country, placing elderly people especially at risk. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

In this March 11, 2020, photo, Scott Sedlacek, right, who has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, wears a mask as he stands near reporters and listens to a spokesman for Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., during a daily press briefing. Sedlacek's father, Chuck, who also has tested positive, lives in the facility, which has been at the center of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in the state, and Sedlacek said he and his siblings have barely spoken to their father…

March 14, 2020

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'He's an inmate': Anguish mounts over virus-hit nursing home
March 14, 2020 6:13 p.m.

'He's an inmate': Anguish mounts over virus-hit nursing home

KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) — Desperate to talk to their dad, Scott Sedlacek and his brother, Steve, stood outside his open nursing home window and shouted. They could barely hear his weak replies, but one came through clearly.