Old and alone at home in a deadly pandemic: Who you gonna call?

We keep learning fresh lessons from COVID. Patience. Compassion. The magic of vaccination. The perils that threaten science every day. And here’s another of COVID’s many hard-learned truths.They need us to break the grinding isolation of the past 18 months. Older people, especially.

But in March, when Shapiro finally came face-to-face with her mother and father after more than a year of pandemic lockdown, she couldn’t help but be startled. “My mom was right. Not so much her, but my dad. The change has been drastic. I had seen meal recipients in that time. I had delivered meals to people. But to see my own parents and how they had aged, it was heart wrenching and also enlightening.

“In a typical year,” she said, “we deliver 2.1, maybe 2.2 million meals. From March 2020 until June 2021, we did 4 million, almost double. Previously, our rolls were about 18,000 older New Yorkers. At the height of the pandemic, we were feeding 50,000. I think that speaks to the scale.”As COVID raged, many older folks were stuck inside their apartments. Scared. Fragile. Unable to shop for themselves. Disconnected from neighbors, friends and family and, in some cases, supplemental income.

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