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A resident of a veterans care center in Massachusetts has tested positive for the coronavirus for a second time, state health officials announced Monday. “A veteran resident of the Soldiers’ Home in Chelsea who was clinically recovered from COVID-19 as per CDC guidance again experienced COVID-related symptoms and was transferred to Cambridge Health Alliance for treatment and tested positive,” according…

Massachusetts’ two state-run soldiers’ homes are resuming visits this week after being hotspots for the new coronavirus. The Chelsea Soldiers’ Home will begin allowing visits outdoors starting Monday while the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home will begin allowing them Tuesday. The state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services says all veteran residents and staff have been retested in preparation for...

Four more veterans died at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home this weekend, three of whom tested positive for the new coronavirus, health officials reported Sunday.

New federal rules for nursing homes come as a total of 60 veterans die in Massachusetts Soldiers’ Homes, 50 of which were related to the coronavirus..

The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office is launching an investigation into a nursing facility in Holyoke where more than a dozen veterans have died amid an outbreak of the new coronavirus.