While British media focuses on the pandemic’s effect on young people, it ignores the most vulnerable – elderly women.
![A resident looks out of her bedroom window at Fremantle Trust care home, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Princes Risborough, Britain, May 5, 2020 [Eddie Keogh/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RTX7HEVN.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Shir Shimoni is a PhD student in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College University of London.
While British media focuses on the pandemic’s effect on young people, it ignores the most vulnerable – elderly women.
![A resident looks out of her bedroom window at Fremantle Trust care home, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Princes Risborough, Britain, May 5, 2020 [Eddie Keogh/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RTX7HEVN.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)