ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「A nursing home in West Virginia has finished vaccinations — and now residents are getting a glimpse at what the other side of the pandemic might look like.⁣ ⁣ After nearly a year in lockdown for the residents of Good Shepherd Nursing Home — eating meals in their rooms, playing bingo over their television sets and isolating themselves almost entirely from the outside world — their coronavirus vaccinations were finished and the hallways were slowly beginning to reawaken.⁣ ⁣ In a first, tentative glimpse at what the other side of the pandemic might look like, Betty Lou Leech, 97, arrived at the dining room early, a mask on her face, her hair freshly curled.⁣ ⁣ “I’m too excited to eat,” she said, sitting at her favorite table once again.⁣ ⁣ It has been a miserable year for American nursing homes. More than 163,000 residents and employees of long-term care facilities have died from the coronavirus, about one-third of all virus deaths in the U.S. Infections have swept through some 31,000 facilities and nearly all have had to shut down in some way.⁣ ⁣ West Virginia has emerged as one of the first states to finish giving two doses of vaccines to the thousands of people inside its nursing homes, so Good Shepherd, a 192-bed Catholic home in Wheeling, was among the first facilities in the country to begin tiptoeing back toward normalcy this past week.⁣ ⁣ The first day back was full of ordinary moments: small talk over coffee, bidding wars at an afternoon auction, a game of dice. But after a year of loss, loneliness and disruption, the very ordinariness of it all brought joy and relief.⁣ ⁣ Tap the link in our bio to see more from inside the nursing home. Photos by @amr.alfiky⁣」2月16日 2時31分