'Essential' Or Not, These Workers Report For Duty [californiahealthline.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 4/3/201:00 PM

By Heidi de Marco, California Healthline, April 1, 2020

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Pauline Lawrence is 63, an age that puts her at increased risk if she contracts COVID-19.

Yet, three days a week, she spends 16 hours with someone at even greater risk: a 97-year-old man who depends on her and two other home health aides to survive.

“Somebody has to take care of him,” said Lawrence, an immigrant from Jamaica who lives with her 30-year-old son in a South Los Angeles apartment. “I will stand up to do what I have to do to help.”

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