I see it in my older relatives all the time; the body simply can't heal as well as it could in their youth or even middle age, so an average bruise is not only larger but lasts a couple weeks instead of days.
Edit: That fucking bitch Hochul has just reissued the mask mandates for all of New York State beginning Monday. It'll be interesting to see how much this gets enforced or has the general public simply had enough.
Double Edit: This fucking mask mandate is interesting, because they way I'm reading it, you aren't exempt if you yourself are vaccinated. It's exempt if the indoor location itself has a vaccine mandate. So this looks to be some weird policy to either exempt New York City or step one to force Upstate private businesses to start having vaccine mandates? I'm not sure.