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A New York hospital system is barring visitors, including partners, during childbirth due to coronavirus risk. The New York-Presbyterian health care system said it needed to "exclude all visitors, including partners, for women admitted in labor." The hospital would also test all admitted women for COVID-19, whether or not they are showing symptoms. (CNN, March 22)
The virus hunter showing the world how to fight an epidemic. Jung Eun-kyeong, the woman who heads South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has become something of a national hero. (Bloomberg, March 20)
A mother skips meals so her children can eat. Summer Mossberger, a 33-year-old disabled Army veteran, shuttles her six children to the local elementary school to pick up the free lunches still being distributed despite coronavirus closures. She, however, wouldn't eat her first bite of food until 5:30 p.m. (The New York Times, March 20)
The coronavirus is a disaster for feminism. “Across the world, women’s independence will be a silent victim of the pandemic.” (The Atlantic, March 19)
They clean the buildings workers are fleeing. But who's protecting them? Millions of Californians are sheltered in place while janitors continue cleaning office buildings where coronavirus may be a threat. (The New York Times, March 18)
🎧 Listen: “I never thought that I would not be there to say goodbye to her. That I wouldn’t be holding her hand at her bedside when she goes.” When social distancing keeps a daughter and her ailing mother apart. (WNYC/New Yorker Radio Hour, March 20)
📺 Watch: Jennifer Haller, a 43-year-old Seattle mother of two and the first volunteer to test a coronavirus vaccine, discusses why she stepped up. (CNN, March 18)
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