Carmen Gray, right, talks with her mother, Susan Hailey, left, who has tested positive for the new coronavirus, through the window of Hailey's room at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash., Tuesday, March 17, 2020, near Seattle. In-person visits are not allowed at the nursing home, at the center of the outbreak of new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
March 18, 2020
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March 18, 2020 5:23 p.m.
US nursing homes warn of looming shortage of masks and gowns
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many nursing homes risk running out of protective masks and gowns by next week because of the coronavirus, and at least one facility already had to resort to using plastic garbage bags to make gowns, an industry group warned Wednesday.