Blind Abilities Podcast

Full Transcript Every day we are inundated with reports about COVID-19: statistics, new cases, and worse. Every day we hear of how the coronavirus has impacted people all over the world, but have we heard specific reports of its effect on blind and visually impaired individuals?  In this sixth episode in our series, Around the World with COVID-19 from a Blindness Perspective, we hear from Brooklyn Rodden Kelly from California. Thus far we have spanned the globe with Blind citizens Around the world, from Australia and Malaysia, to the united kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, and Canada. Now we hear a first-hand report from Brooklyn with her unique perspective on how the coronavirus has affected her in the states. Brooklyn lives in Sacramento, the capitol of California, located in the northern part of the state. In this episode, she walks us through the evolution of the Corona virus, beginning with “patient Zero” entering the area in early February, the influx in COVID-positive cases and the increasingly restricti