The AP (4/12, Sharp) reports, “States with older populations carry special worries during the deadly pandemic: Loneliness takes an emotional and physical toll on fragile residents.
Delivering food and medicine to the homes of isolated shut-ins presents an enormous challenge. Rural hospitals, meanwhile, worry about overwhelmed emergency rooms if the virus continues to spread.” Pointing to Illinois, the article says, “Chicago, for its part, is doing a better job of keeping tabs on seniors.
The Department of Family & Support Services, for example, is armed with contact information on the 40,000 people who use the community centers that have been closed because of the virus.