"While we’ve decided to self-quarantine for two weeks out of concern about the covid-19 pandemic, no government official ever told us to do so — it just seemed like the right thing to do. Nor did we receive any sort of screening at the airport when we returned to the United States, despite flying into New York — the epicenter of the US outbreak, with over 25,000 reported cases and more than 200 deaths as I write this."

Read the full piece by Vanessa H. Larson, a multiplatform editor at The Washington Post, here.

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