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Each day seems to bring more news about efforts to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. At first, the cases and the closures seemed far away.

First a Thunder game was cancelled. The basketball state playoff games were suspended. It all started to hit closer to home when area hospitals and nursing homes put in stringent rules for visitors or completely banned everyone. My niece in Arizona just moved her mother to a new Alzheimer’s facility. She knows her mother is feeling lost and disoriented in the new place, but she’s prohibited from visiting and reassuring her.

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