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Kait Schuster
Guest Columnist
The pandemic has disrupted the lives of millions of people in countless ways. For those of us lucky enough not to be touched directly by illness or death, the disturbances of lives and routines – going to work or school or hanging out with friends and relatives – has been tough.
But not as tough as those faced by people without a place to call home. And what better way to address them than by meeting the challenge of cold feet with warm hearts.
My sister Kimberly created the Cold Feet Warm Hearts Foundation in the before times, as a volunteer at the Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, where she is a student at Rice University. She saw first-hand that clothing insecurity was a significant problem in vulnerable populations and used the foundation to organize clothing drives and raise money to provide masks, socks, shoes and other clothing for patients.
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Worcester County has surpassed 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a somber milestone less than a year after the pandemic first hit the region.
The 2,000th death was recorded in the same week the United States hit its own bleak mark: 500,000 deaths. The city of Worcester surpassed 400 deaths.
Those numbers come as cases continue a sharp fall nationally and across Massachusetts, though less so in Worcester County. New cases were roughly flat in Worcester County in the past week through Thursday, coming as the region stands out from other Massachusetts counties for unusually high number of cases linked to a variant first found in the United Kingdom believed to be both more contagious and possibly more deadly.