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COVID in a Multigenerational Household

Listen as a UW student describes living in a multi-generational household during the pandemic and the anxiety with getting COVID while living with elderly grandparents. She tells of how her family quarantined and coped with the stress.

We took COVID very seriously because [my grandma] was very high risk and she already had other medical conditions going on.