Correction: Virus Outbreak-Multigenerational Families story
Posted May 12, 2020 7:00 am
CHICAGO (AP) - In a story May 10, 2020, about multigenerational families, The Associated Press erroneously described the breakdown of people living in multigenerational households. Roughly 64 million people in the U.S. live in multigenerational family households, or 1 in 5 people, not 1 in 5 households. The percentages by race also apply to people, not to households.
Francy Sandoval looks outside from her home in Melrose Park, Ill., Thursday, April 23, 2020. At the age of 24, Sandoval has unwittingly become the sole breadwinner for her family, after her mom, dad and brother - a nanny, a painter and a server - all lost their jobs in the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Francy Sandoval poses for a portrait at her home in Melrose Park, Ill., Thursday, April 23, 2020. She works as a receptionist at a community health clinic which treats multiple COVID-19 cases. She has to isolate herself in the attic as soon as she comes home from work each day and is terrified of infecting her family. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Francy Sandoval looks outside from her home in Melrose Park, Ill., Thursday, April 23, 2020. She works as a receptionist at a community health clinic which treats multiple COVID-19 cases. She has to isolate herself in the attic as soon as she comes home from work each day and is terrified of infecting her family. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Anthony Travis, who has recovered from COVID-19 and lives with his sister, Jacqueline K. Johnson, background, and an adult daughter, poses for a portrait outside his Riverdale, Ill., home on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Travis, who's diabetic, has high blood pressure and is a cancer survivor, must self isolate within the home as a matter of taking care of one another. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Anthony Travis, who has recovered from COVID-19 and lives with his sister and adult daughter, poses for a portrait outside his Riverdale, Ill., home on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Travis, who's diabetic, has high blood pressure and is a cancer survivor, must self isolate within the home as a matter of taking care of one another. When his daughter got pneumonia: He could hear her through the walls. 'I have to, as a parent, sit up and listen to my child go through pain and agony and suffering because of not being able to breathe,' he said. 'I couldn't give her comfort, other than with my words.' (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Anthony Travis, who has recovered from COVID-19 and lives with his sister and an adult daughter, gathers a surprise anonymous delivery of groceries on the porch of his Riverdale, Ill., home on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Travis, who's diabetic, has high blood pressure and is a cancer survivor, must self isolate within the home as a matter of taking care of one another. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Anthony Travis, who has recovered from COVID-19 and lives with his sister and an adult daughter, looks at a surprise anonymous delivery of groceries on the porch of his Riverdale, Ill., home on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Travis, who's diabetic, has high blood pressure and is a cancer survivor, must self isolate within the home as a matter of taking care of one another. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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