{"id":16332,"date":"2020-06-26T07:25:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T11:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16332"},"modified":"2020-06-26T07:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T11:26:40","slug":"seniors-in-low-income-housing-live-in-fear-of-covid-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16332","title":{"rendered":"Seniors In Low-Income Housing Live In Fear Of COVID Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Davetta Brooks, 75, who has heart failure, a fractured hip and macular degeneration, is afraid. Conditions in her low-income senior building on Chicago\u2019s Near West Side \u2014 the Congressman George W. Collins Apartments \u2014 are \u201cdeplorable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Residents are not wearing masks or gloves to guard against the coronavirus, she said: \u201cThey\u2019re touching everything on the elevator, in the laundry room. And anybody and everybody\u2019s relatives and friends are coming in and out with no scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

No one is checking on residents to see if they need help, Brooks said. And no one seems to know whether residents have tested positive for COVID-19 or died, though ambulances have screeched up to the entrance several times.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

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