COVID-19 forced grief support groups online; a year later, they’re still waiting

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It was March 5, 2020, and a local Philadelphia chapter of The Compassionate Friends grief support group had just wrapped up its monthly meeting at Temple University Hospital. When chapter leader Marvella McDaniel left the basement classroom that night, she never could have expected that it would be their last in-person gathering for over a year.