Boy Scouts create COVID-19 'hug booth' for Texas nursing home.

[Robert59]

Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A Texas Boy Scout troop is helping residents at a nursing home get a little closer to their visitors with a "hug booth" designed with COVID-19 safety in mind.

Heartis Clear Lake, an assistant living facility in Webster that is one of several such homes to impose strict safety measures following a surge of COVID-19 cases at nursing homes, is now allowing residents and their loved ones some limited physical contact through the booth created by Boy Scout Troop 848.

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/1...g-booth-for-Texas-nursing-home/5631607963987/

 

[Aunt Marg]

How sad these times have gotten.

I can't imagine, even though the idea is novel.

 

[MarciKS]

They had a cuddle curtain that someone came up with as an idea for comforting COVID patients that were dying.