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Relwende Guiguemde, left, waits to have his temperature taken by Angie Webb, right, a nurse at Western State Hospital, Thursday, March 19, 2020, as he arrives at a visitors' entrance for a job interview in Lakewood, Wash. A patient and a worker at the facility, the state's largest psychiatric hospital, have tested positive for the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Patient, worker at state psychiatric hospital have COVID-19
March 20, 2020 7:26 a.m.

Patient, worker at state psychiatric hospital have COVID-19

SEATTLE (AP) — A patient and a worker at Washington state's largest psychiatric hospital have tested positive for coronavirus, and workers at the facility fear the number of cases will increase due to a lack of protective gear and new policies that force them to crowd together as they try to get into the building.