Facing Coronavirus as a Senior Citizen:

Why Covid-19 is — and isn’t — just one more old people’s disease.

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by Sharon Turnoy

My father died of colon cancer when he was 67.

When my oldest brother learned that he had precancerous polyps in his colon, word went out to his four siblings: Get a colonoscopy. Now.