Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Will Rise During Quarantines. So Will Neglect of At-Risk People

More ways that this virus will wreak havoc

Patchwork social service departments are scrambling to address the fallout of coronavirus restrictions, and social workers say vast numbers of at-risk, elderly, sick and disabled Americans will be imperiled. “We are going to see some deaths in our caseloads,” she said in an interview. “We might not even know about it until they’ve been dead for several days.”

[link:https://www.propublica.org/article/domestic-violence-and-child-abuse-will-rise-during-quarantines-so-will-neglect-at-risk-people-social-workers-say|