with the virus surging.Zoom and FaceTime calls have become a fixture at dinner tables to connect with family members who don't want to travel.
Far fewer volunteers are helping at soup kitchens or community centers. A Utah health department has been delivering boxes of food to residents who are infected with the virus and can't go to the store.
A New York nursing home is offering drive-up visits for families of residents struggling with celebrating the holiday alone.“The holidays make it a little harder,” said Harriet Krakowsky, an 85-year-old resident of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale in New York who misses the big Thanksgiving celebrations of years past and has lost neighbors and friends to the virus. “I cry, but I get over it.