I don't know if this qualifies as COVID news, but my mom lives in assisted living. She can't leave the facility and no visitors are allowed. So, every couple weeks I pick up a few grocery treats for her she can't get in the facility. I drive up to her facility, ring the buzzer, then someone takes my grocery bags up to mom's apartment.
I took her another goodie bag on Thursday. The staff set the bags inside her door, and mom started taking things out of the bag. Somehow she lost her balance and fell face first into the metal hinge of the entry door, banging her knee into the floor in the process. The nurse called me to let me know, but said mom was saying she was OK and didn't want to see a doctor.
Then yesterday the nurse called and said mom's forehead was swollen and bruised, she had two black eyes, bruises on her nose, and her knee was swollen too. They called an ambulance and sent her to the emergency room at the hospital. She spent the day alone there, since no visitors are allowed during COVID (I asked when the hospital called to verify insurance info). They ran a bunch of scans and everything came back OK. So they sent her back to the assisted living in a cab. The staff didn't even know she was coming until the cab dropped her off at the front door.
So, she's pretty beat up right now but sounds like she'll recover. To make matters worse, now that she left the facility she has to stay in total isolation for 14 days, she can't even go outside. Not that she'll probably feel like walking in her current condition.