“Other emotions and old teenage angst have resurfaced as people have been using their time back home (sometimes voluntary; sometimes not) to go through the closets, boxes and drawers containing treasures from the past.”— Taylor Trudon, nytimes.com
“A lot of us should be happy we have an excuse to wear a mask to cover our faces. I, for one, love to not be seen.”— Magdalene Taylor, melmagazine.com
“In the midst of a multi-pronged crisis, it’s not easy to get a lay of the land – much less predict what tomorrow looks like. But right now publishers are forced to do that every day.”— Digiday, digiday.com
“I'm feeling so sickened and scared that the carefully-selected contents of my cart suddenly seem inedible—let alone a meal served on a sidewalk next to strangers. For now, I've lost my appetite.”— Kat Kinsman , foodandwine.com
“This summer’s turn toward hiking could be because there isn’t anything else going on. Or it could be that there is so much else going on, too.”— Maggie Lange, thecut.com
“I miss hugging these expectant mothers and being with them in person. But the coronavirus pandemic has only amplified what I always knew to be true: This country is failing when it comes to supporting birthing people, especially black women.”— LATHAM THOMAS, Cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan.com
“We have a lot of feelings about the way dating works right now, as we live through a global pandemic. We’re sad and angry and frustrated and horny and NOT horny and, I guess, occasionally happy?”— Vanessa Pamela, autostraddle.com
“The White House finally began requiring masks of everyone entering the West Wing. Everyone, that is, except the president.”— Rhonda Garelick, thecut.com
“U.S. factory production plummeted in April by the most in records back to 1919 as coronavirus-related shutdowns exacted a bigger toll on the economy.”— Vince Golle, finance.yahoo.com
“The coronavirus has now taken 300,000 lives globally, according to official figures. But depending on the way deaths are counted, the real human cost could be far greater.”— Pierre Donadieu, news.yahoo.com
“A New York barber who cut hair over the past few weeks amid the state's coronavirus restrictions has tested positive for the virus, according to health officials on Wednesday.”— Fox 5 New York, fox5ny.com
“In these uncertain times, there are also many questions that travelers desperately need answers to. We're dedicated to reporting the most up-to-date advice, whether that's about flight cancellations, international travel restrictions, or how countries around the world are slowly beginning to reopen.”— Megan Spurrell, cntraveler.com
“More than 300,000 people around the world have now died globally from the coronavirus, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, as the pandemic passed yet another bleak milestone on Thursday.”— Rob Picheta, cnn.com
“An Oklahoma doctor who spent three weeks in intensive care battling COVID-19 says he barely remembers anything.”— CBS Oklahoma City, dfw.cbslocal.com
“Over a third of patients treated for COVID-19 in a large New York medical system developed acute kidney injury, and nearly 15% required dialysis, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.”— Julie Steenhuysen, news.trust.org
“The NYPD is under fire again after a video showed police officers arresting a 22-year-old mother in the subway who they say refused to properly cover her face.”— NBC New York, nbcnewyork.com
“Most health experts agree that the need for a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 is clear.”— Joe Falca, npr.org
“One-third of the homes across the vast, dry reservation don’t have running water, forcing families to haul it in. Many in close-knit Navajo communities live in crowded houses where self-quarantine is impossible, and many must drive hours to the nearest grocery store. To most Navajo, isolating an inf…”— Felicia Fonseca, apnews.com