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).
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."
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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1/ It's sad how quickly Covid patients are overwhelming hospitals across America.
I wanted to understand the scope so I searched local news sites around the country and found anecdote after anecdote illustrating the dire situation...
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2/ In El Paso, overstretched hospitals are airlifting patients halfway across Texas, after a 100-bed ICU at the convention center filled up.
One of the destinations? Austin, nearly 600 miles away, farther than NYC to Ohio... kfoxtv.com/news/coronavir… (KFOX El Paso)
3/ El Paso's morgues are paying jail inmates $2/hour to transport a backlog of bodies awaiting autopsy. elpasotimes.com/story/news/loc… (El Paso Times)