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Nursing homes and other longterm care facilities accounted for over 182,000 deaths during the pandemic – almost 40% of all U.S. deaths — and have long been plagued with concerns about infections, understaffing and inferior care. How can reporters learn what’s happening inside these places and understand the dangers posed to vulnerable residents and staff? Learn about the financial shenanigans involved, and how one nursing home resident was kept alive and emerged from a vegetative state after 17 years.