re: Daughter questions mother's death at nursing home of Covid - no testing done.

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“My mother was in good health, other than having dementia,” Faith Heimbrodt of Huntley said. “She had no other health issues. No diabetes, no heart disease, no cancer.”

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But dementia, especially if its been going on for awhile, can make you immunocompromised just by its nature of losing function and becoming more susceptible to UTIs, pneumonia, etc. Add to that it sounds like she was in a shitty nursing home with a family member that never visited to make sure she was taken care of, I imagine she was ripe for picking up COVID-19.