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A nurse wearing a mask walks past the room of Chuck Sedlacek — who has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus — Friday, March 13, 2020, as seen through the window of his room at Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., near Seattle. The facility has been at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in the state, and Sedlacek's son Scott Sedlacek said that he and his siblings have barely spoken to their father inside the center, who in addition to testing positive for the coronavirus, has blindness, neuropathy, and has 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)

A nurse wearing a mask walks past the room of Chuck Sedlacek — who has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus — Friday, March 13, 2020, as seen through the window of his room at Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., near Seattle. The facility has been at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in the state, and Sedlacek's son Scott Sedlacek said that he and his siblings have barely spoken to their father inside the center, who in addition to testing positive fo…

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.