‘Joy, Love, Grief’: How It Looks When Families Reunite
“A daughter holding her mother’s hand. A son overcome that his 95-year-old mother survived the pandemic. A stoic family patriarch, suddenly in tears. After a year of excruciating lockdowns, these were the scenes at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities as they began to open up this spring. Before the arrival of vaccines, one in threecoronavirus deaths in the United States had ties to nursing homes and similar facilities.”