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'It's totally ad hoc': Why America's coronavirus response looks like a patchwork

By Ellen Barry
New York Times·
8 mins to read
'It's totally ad hoc': Why America's coronavirus response looks like a patchwork
'It's totally ad hoc': Why America's coronavirus response looks like a patchwork

David Norton, who helps to run a community centre in this small Rhode Island city, is not a scientist. Neither were the board members who gathered for an emergency meeting last week, to decide whether the risk of contagion meant they should cancel their upcoming events.

They sat together —

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