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The terror of our times, my encounters with the Coronavirus

I arrived in New York on the same day that a young woman was announced to have tested positive for the coronavirus. The healthcare worker had just returned from Iran and immediately placed herself in isolation in her apartment with her husband, who has tested negative despite living in the same house with her.

She was responsible enough to have taken a lot of precautionary measures - she did not take public transportation and quickly isolated herself to ensure that the disease does not spread.

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