Covid-19: Teddy bears to the rescue for stressed frontliners


Johnson (right) and her 18-year-old daughter Elizabeth sit in their living room with some Comfort Cubs. — TNS

Marcella Johnson planned to mark the 20th anniversary of her Encinitas, California, United States-based non-profit, The Comfort Cub, by handing out 1,000 therapeutic, weighted teddy bears to families suffering from traumatic loss.

Now some of them are headed to frontline medical workers dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

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