From a Distance: Infection concerns separate families

Volume
26
/ Issue
38

Cover Design Credit:

Scott Southwick

Cover Photography Credit:

Cindy Kunst
The health crisis caused by the new coronavirus has ended in-person visits between residents in local care facilities and their families, including the married couple on the cover. To stay connected, they rely on daily online chats and twice-weekly sessions gazing at one another through the windows of Aston Park Health Care Center.

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