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cord-342555-5r9aa7u5	Eghtesadi, Marzieh	Breaking Social Isolation Amidst COVID‐19: A Viewpoint on Improving Access to Technology in Long‐Term Care Facilities	2020-04-24		.txt	text/plain	1607	71	47	For older patients isolated in LTC facilities, providing them with these technology-dependent amenities and social contacts could potentially decrease their sense of loneliness and increase their self-perceived health, similarly to the benefits seen with physically going outdoors. Whether it be in the context of social isolation to control a local gastroenteritis outbreak to a large-scale pandemic, giving older adults in LTC facilities the opportunity to access technology would enable them to maintain social contact and communication. [1] [2] [3] As providers in the time of COVID-19, if we ignore symptoms of a mild respiratory infection and continue to work (historically considered a point of pride in much of medical culture), we now risk becoming superspreaders of a deadly disease, putting not only our most vulnerable patients but also scores of our colleagues (and all their patients) in serious danger.	./cache/cord-342555-5r9aa7u5.txt	./txt/cord-342555-5r9aa7u5.txt