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Nerve Center Director @AP focused on customers, news coordination and global planning. Slack addict. NYC based. Ex @MiamiHerald. Formerly verified.

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VIRUS DIARY: Walking, alone, on streets built for crowds

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By Shelley Acoca Verified
| The News-Herald (Willoughby, OH) Verified
NEW YORK — How long has it been — two weeks, three weeks — since life began to change, day by day, as the coronavirus pandemic arrived in New York? Social distancing, most stores closed, working from home (or not working at all), friends sick or quarantined, friends waiting for tests, every single conversation about THE VIRUS. Days melt one into the next as New Yorkers — miraculously — adapt to what once seemed unthinkable and the new norm just becomes normal. Masks, gloves, social distancing.
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VIRUS DIARY: Walking, alone, on streets built for crowds

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By Shelley Acoca Verified
| The Morning Journal (Lorain, OH) Verified
NEW YORK — How long has it been — two weeks, three weeks — since life began to change, day by day, as the coronavirus pandemic arrived in New York? Social distancing, most stores closed, working from home (or not working at all), friends sick or quarantined, friends waiting for tests, every single conversation about THE VIRUS. Days melt one into the next as New Yorkers — miraculously — adapt to what once seemed unthinkable and the new norm just becomes normal. Masks, gloves, social distancing.
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VIRUS DIARY: Walking, alone, on streets built for crowds

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By Shelley Acoca Verified
| Porterville Recorder Verified
NEW YORK (AP) — How long has it been — two weeks, three weeks — since life began to change, day by day, as the coronavirus pandemic arrived in New York? Social distancing, most stores closed, working from home (or not working at all), friends sick or quarantined, friends waiting for tests, every single conversation about THE VIRUS. Days melt one into the next as New Yorkers — miraculously — adapt to what once seemed unthinkable and the new norm just becomes normal. Masks, gloves, social distancing.
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