https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/us/coronavirus-nursing-home-reunion.html Bryan Anselm for The New York Times They saw each other and wept. They held hands and didnât let go. How to begin to say âI love youâ after a year? âJoy, Love, Griefâ: How It Looks When Families Reunite The pandemic kept nursing home residents and their loved ones apart for a year. Photographers for The New York Times were there when they finally reunited. A daughter holding her motherâs hand. A son overcome that his 95-year-old mother survived the pandemic. A stoic family patriarch, suddenly in tears. After a year of excruciating lockdowns, these were the scenes at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities as they began to open up this spring. Before the arrival of vaccines, one in three coronavirus deaths in the United States had ties to nursing homes and similar facilities.