Isolation hotel residents drained by "crippling" solitude Residents at isolation hotels in New York are being drained by the solitude, with one guest recovering from COVID-19 describing the loneliness as “crippling.”In this Thursday, May 21, 2020 photo provided by Richard Schuster, Schuster photographs himself inside his Holiday Inn room the day before he is discharged from the COVID-19 Hotel Program, in New York. Schuster is among about 35 people staying at the Holiday Inn Times Square. Chinea is a physician from Hudson River Health Care, one of the community health care centers enrolling patients in the city's COVID-19 Hotel Program. For those stuck at the hotel, the grind of isolation can be nearly as onerous as the virus itself. “That is mind-numbingly difficult to comprehend.”Schuster was released from the Holiday Inn on Friday and returned to the Ed Thompson Veterans Program.

Source: ABC News May 27, 2020 15:21 UTC