Yes, the coronavirus crisis is real

Heaven Frilot's Louisiana friends thought the coronavirus was a hoax or an exaggeration. Then they found out about her husband.

A hospital.
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This story was originally published in The New York Times. Used with permission.

The only thing that should have been different about the first Friday in March was the apple crisp. Heaven Frilot didn't usually cook at the end of the workweek, instead letting her family snack on leftovers — a roast or pork chops she'd made earlier, maybe — or order pizza. But her 10-year-old son, Ethan, was having a friend over that night, and her husband, Mark, a lawyer, was coming off a crushing week of arbitration. She would bake an apple crisp.

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