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COVID-19 Patient In Florida Keys Nursing Home Tells Of Nightmare Life In Isolation

David Goodhue
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Miami Herald/FL Keys News

At least 13 residents of a Florida Keys nursing home are in isolation because they either tested positive for the novel coronavirus or they are awaiting test results.

One of them, who has multiple sclerosis and is in a wheelchair, says he has been bathed only once in the past six days and has not been able to brush his teeth in nearly two weeks. Guy Rehmann, 64, says most of his clothes are missing, and he and other residents in isolation have no access to the showers.

“So far, nothing for my toothbrush or my fingernails being clipped,” Rehmann said in a text Wednesday from inside the Crystal Health and Rehab Center on Plantation Key.

Read more at our at our news partner, the Miami Herald.

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