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Nora Eckert was part of the team that discovered a nursing home concealed the real number of people who died at the home due to COVID-19.

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Takeaways from Eckert's reporting: Minnesota Department of Corrections prisons were poised for failure even before the pandemic struck. The prison population was nearing capacity, leaving little room for distancing or quarantine, and many facilities had poor ventilation. Still, the DOC failed to innovate. They decided not to add outdoor tents for quarantining inmates or correctional officers due to security concerns, even though prisons across the country found ways to do so. The department was especially ill-prepared for the second wave that swept across the state in November, even after obs...

Today we highlight our investigation of Wisconsin’s struggle to contain COVID-19 in its prisons, where about 10,800 inmates have been infected — more than half of the population — and at least 25 have died.

And the results in swing states challenged by Trump are exactly in line with the national vote.