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Collected Item: “Chaplain Reassures Long-Term Care Workers in Minnesota”

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Chaplain Reassures Long-Term Care Workers in Minnesota

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This image accompanies an AARP article titled “How to Track COVID-19 Nursing Home Cases and Deaths in Your State.”

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I found this image attached to an AARP article titled “How to Track COVID-19 Nursing Home Cases and Deaths in Your State.” The chaplain is holding a sign that reads, “You are not alone. You are loved.” The chaplain is expressing his faith through an act of service and love: supporting the frontline workers. It is a generous gesture, and one that I am sure resonates with the senior citizens at the care facility as well as their caretakers.

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#ASU, #HST485, #Over60, #Catholic, #AARP, #nursinghomes

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https://cdn.aarp.net/content/dam/aarp/caregiving/2020/05/1140-nursing-home-priest-sign.imgcache.rev.web.1400.798.jpg

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David Joles, Star Tribune via Getty Images

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2020-06-11
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