Even as social distancing rules loosen, life is far from returning to normal, especially for parents with preexisting conditions, pregnant women, and parents home with newborns who are at a higher risk for becoming severely ill from COVID-19.

Erin Blute’s doctors defined her school-age daughters as the biggest threats to her health being a blood cancer patient. An expat who resides in London, she left her husband working, fled her apartment, and flew to Arizona with the girls when the pandemic hit. She sent them to live with her mother-in-law and self-isolated in a house next door so they could enjoy more summer freedom than she could provide.

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Holly Rizzuto Palker

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