AP (August 15)Homes with Grandparents Weigh Virus Risk as School StartsZita Robinson, who’s 77 and diabetic, has been careful around her granddaughter since the coronavirus pandemic took hold.
A door connects Robinson’s apartment in Phoenix to the main house where 8-year-old Traris “Trary” Robinson-Newman and her mother live, but it mostly stays shut.
Their only physical contact is if Trary walks in with her back toward Grandma. Then Robinson will kiss her own hand and lightly touch Trary’s back — “like I’m sending her a kiss with my hand.”.