When 78-year-old Deltona resident Peter Vacarro first heard that the coronavirus had reached Volusia County in March 2020, he couldn’t believe his eyes.
The steadily growing number of cases, the waffling federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines at the beginning of the pandemic, and the lack of knowledge scared him,. As a senior citizen, he was among those most in danger from COVID-19. So he went into self-isolation.
Now, a year later, he still spends his days alone, with only his cat and a weekly cleaning service to keep him company. It’s for his own safety. But it doesn’t come without a price.