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In March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began, nursing homes closed to visitors for what was supposed to be a 14-day quarantine. When Greenfield native JoAnne Klimovich Harrop got the news, she knew where she needed to be. She left behind her husband, her South Hills home, and her job as a journalist in the busy TribLive newsroom, to move into the Charles Morris nursing home with her 93-year-old mother.