By David Robb Labor Editor EXCLUSIVE: Seven residents at the Actors Fund Home in New Jersey have died from COVID-19 and 11 others have tested positive for the virus, according to officials at the entertainment industry retirement home.
With 116 residents, the home in Englewood, NJ, sits in one of the nation’s hotspots for the coronavirus. The first coronavirus-related death at the facility was recorded April 10.
Some 35-40 staff members – mostly care-givers – also have tested positive, or are showing symptoms and are in quarantine because of their direct exposure to residents who tested positive.
No staffer has died, however. Allen Daviau, ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’, ‘Empire Of The Sun’ Cinematographer Dies Of Coronavirus At 77 “This
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