SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports.
Christmas and other holiday celebrations have been much different this year due to Covid. Health officials have urged families not to gather and, if they must, to do it in places that minimize the spread of the virus, like backyards.
The call for holiday restraint comes at a time when our society as a whole yearns for physical contact.
Washington Department of Health psychologist Kira Mauseth is counseling people how to deal with the isolation.
In press briefings this year, Mauseth has sometimes characterized our collective response to the coronavirus as something similar to how people process grief.