Coronavirus and seniors: How life will change when Bay Area shelter-in-place restrictions are lifted [sfchronicle.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 4/30/2012:44 PM

By Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2020

We already know life will not return to normal when Bay Area shelter-in-place restrictions are lifted.

But for seniors, and other people who are at higher risk for developing more serious complications from COVID-19 illness, things will be especially challenging.

“It is going to be a new way of life,” said Dr. Nima Afshar, who specializes in emergency and internal medicine at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. “It takes a minor risk, like high blood pressure, to make them more vulnerable to coronavirus.”

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