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CSU To Begin Testing Long-Term Care Facility Residents, Employees For Coronavirus

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4)- Colorado State University will start testing workers and residents in dozens of long-term care facilities for the next 8 weeks. The hope is to create an early warning system to prevent outbreaks at those facilities.

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CSU is working with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to facilitate the testing. CSU's veterinarian laboratory will process the human tests.

More than half the COVID-19 deaths in Colorado have been among people who live in those dense group settings.

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