'I know it's a time of hysteria and nerves, but offer to help anyone you can,' Rebecca Mehra wrote on Twitter
An Oregon woman is reminding the public to practice kindness and compassion amid the hysteria brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
“I walked over and found an elderly woman and her husband. She cracked her window open a bit more, and explained to me nearly in tears that they are afraid to go in the store,” Mehra continued. — Rebecca Mehra March 12, 2020 Afraid to get sick as they are in their 80’s and hear that the novel coronavirus is affecting older people disproportionately. And that they don’t have family around to help them out. Through the crack in the window she handed me a $100 bill and a grocery list, and asked if II bought the groceries and placed them in her trunk, and gave her back the change.
“Thank you so much. These are moments that bring us together as people, and compassion like yours is what will get us through,” a different social media users tweeted. The number of confirmed cases jumped up by nearly 400 over the last 24 hours, the largest day-to-day increase yet.The first cases of a mysterious respiratory illness — what is now known as COVID-2019, a form of coronavirus — began in Wuhan, China in late December. Since then, the virus has spread worldwide, leading the World Health Organization to declare a public health emergency, the first since the zika epidemic in 2016.
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