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Contagion: Life in the Time of the Coronavirus

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(Editor’s note: The Los Angeles Press Club recently asked journalists to submit stories about their experience covering the coronavirus pandemic.

It was a contest and I’m honored to have come in as a runner-up. Here is that essay – Karen Ocamb) COVID-19 is new, contagious, and fast.

Three months ago, the world screamed: “Be afraid of everything — the air, surfaces, people.” As of May 1, the W.H.O. reports nearly 240,000 deaths worldwide, deaths that many believe could have been prevented.

I’ve been here before. In the early 1980s, as an unknown virus killed homosexual men in New York City and California, the Reagan administration expressed no alarm that the HTLV-III virus was a communicable disease.

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