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MPTF Nursing Home Reports No New Coronavirus Cases Among Residents In Nearly 6 Weeks

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By David Robb Labor Editor The extraordinary steps taken to combat the coronavirus at the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s nursing home in Woodland Hills are paying off.

While six residents died in the early days of the outbreak, there have been no deaths there due to the virus since April 23, and no residents have tested positive since April 12.

The last caregiver tested positive on April 30, and none has died. A key tool in keeping the virus in check, said MPTF president and CEO Bob Beitcher, is lots of testing, which was not available in the early days of the pandemic.

But even that, he said, is “no silver bullet.” “Not only is there no silver bullet, but, worse, there are random and invisible bullets – in the form of asymptomatic

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