As the pandemic raged, I made dozens of visits to a fertility clinic. Did I catch Covid on one of those visits? I’ll never know, but the guilt is still there. As a health care journalist in Los Angeles reporting on the pandemic, I knew exactly what I needed to …
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A New York City Housing Authority retiree ticked off his running tally: an ex-wife sick, a daughter sick, and three old friends dead. In Queens, a young poet learned a friend’s parents are in the hospital, one on a ventilator. And Qtina Parson of Parkchester, the Bronx, gave a grim …
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