These are today's front pages of The Kansas City Star (Missouri), The News & Observer (N.C.), The Lufkin Daily News (Texas) and the Indianapolis Star (Indiana).

Sense a pattern in the headlines? #COVID19
Here are links to each story:

Kansas City Star: "Since March, Laura McConnell has been living in the finished baseman of her Kansas City home, away from her husband and stepson upstairs. Her reason: Her husband thinks COVID-19 is fake news." kansascity.com/news/coronavir… by @LisaGinKC
Indianapolis Star: "No one is accepting a universal truth anymore. Everyone has subjective truths they subscribe to."

indystar.com/story/money/20… by @Bhuang2012
Lufkin Daily News: "People just don’t see it like we see it," said Sharon Shaw (county health services administrator). "It’s real to us every day from the moment we wake up....It’s real, it’s real, it’s real.” lufkindailynews.com/coronavirus/ar… by @bethanygb879
News & Observer: “'I honestly think the ones that have been affected by the deaths and COVID itself are taking it a lot more seriously than the ones that haven’t,'" said interim health director Ann Pike."
newsobserver.com/news/coronavir… by @joshshaffer08 @_lucysherman

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