‘Nobody Can Come In’: Days Grow Long At Georgia Nursing Home As Virus Lockdown Continues

Southern Pines nursing home resident Wayne Swint gets a birthday visit from his mother, Clemittee Swint, in Warner Robins, Georgia, on Friday, June 26, 2020. Face to face visits are not allowed but staff members help arrange window visits.

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In nursing homes across the U.S., life is as frozen as when the lockdown began four months ago.

Today, as some states tiptoe toward allowing nursing home visits again, most remain walled off.

The result is places like Southern Pines in central Georgia, which the virus engulfed in the spring, but residents now find themselves neither in the heat of panicked battle nor past it.