where brown lives there could be a decline in the number of new cases in many areas of the especially inside nursing homes. >> he will have his grandkids more than anything. >> reporter: where kerry's father earl lived, 350 residents and 300 staff members are presumed to have the virus earl lived for his family but died without them by his side. >> it bothers me because a stranger held his hand while he was dying and not me. >> reporter: tonight, all across the cotry, heartbreaking at nursing homese are unfolding in massachusetts, it took th tional gua tcarry out covid-19 tesng for thoseost in need of help. in southern cafornia more than y were ecuated after employees failed to show up to work foa second day in a row. and at a michigan nursing home after luann died when contraging the virus, her family discovered her haunting plea for help left on an alexa. >> alexa, help me. i am in pain i have to find a way to relief it. >> reporter: with no region immune from the virus, our country's smallest communities could pay the highest price. covid-19 reached two-thirds of the nation's rural counties with one in ten reporting at least one death. the lucky lifeflighted to larger cities whe