Grace Dowell, 63, poses for a photo at her home in Sunderland, Maryland, U.S., March 18, 2020. Picture taken March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Linda So
(Reuters) - Grace Dowell, a 63-year-old grandmother, has stopped grocery shopping and cancelled all her doctor’s appointments. No one is allowed into her rural Maryland home. Every piece of mail is disinfected.
Dowell decided last week that strict isolation was the only way to protect herself, her husband and her mother from COVID-19, the virus that has killed more than 10,000 people across the globe and is proving especially deadly for the elderly.
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