Reporter covering Covid-19 contracts Covid-10 10pm

George's friend contracts Coronavirus

Mostly sunny new york times reporter sarah maslin nir dives headlong into her work.

She was a pulitizer prize finalist in 2016 and has won multiple journalism awards.

I met sarah five years ago when we were both covering a prison break in upstate new york.

Now my friend is covering covi?1?

And ended up contracting the virus.

I didn't have a fever.

I had sniffles, really those symptoms, now we're understanding, it's possible to carry the disease without having a single symptom, but i thought i just had a common cold and unfortunately asymptomatic or low symptomatic people are responsible for infecting on average, two point two other people.

So i may have been one of those which keeps me up at night.

New york times metro reporter sarah maslin nir had been on the coronavirus beat for days when she developed cold symptoms and got tested at one of the drive up facilities in new rochelle.

Turned out she had contracted the virus she'd been assigned to cover.

She suspected she might be infected when a meal she cooked was seemingly devoid of taste and smell.

Wow the sauce has no taste whatsoever.

And i recall an article i read, i think early march from china, two healthcare professionals, the new york times reported, had symptoms in china, one unfortunately died and one of their symptoms, i remember this one line she lost her sense of taste and smell.

The virus put sara?

An active and accomplished equestria?

Flat on her back for day?

And she describes her case as mild.

She believes new york was hit hard because new york wasn't ready for covid 19.

She hopes we here in the upper midwest are better prepared for the peak.

A day ago 777 of my neighbors died and that's because we've been a step behind this.

We knew what was happening abroad.

We saw sarah was adamant that she and new york should be viewed as a cautionary tale by those of us here in minnesota and iowa.

She urges us to