With hospitals prohibiting partners from joining expectant mothers during childbirth, one father-to-be talks about missing a life-changing moment
Updated March 27, 2020 11:48 am ET We are all living in limbo now, trying to adjust, day by day, to the realities of life in the era of Covid-19. Some of us are battling the virus itself, or trying to cope as it attacks people in our lives. Others are grappling with campus and workplace closures, job losses, risky working conditions, moves back home, relationship strains, and uncertainty. Lots of uncertainty.
Chronicling childbirth Brian Whitton, 35, newsroom developer for Notes on the Pandemic, The Wall Street Journal Kristin Dotson moved to Philadelphia in 2017 soon after Hurricane Harvey devastated her hometown of Houston. Now, though, when she walks the aisles of her local Aldi supermarket, it’s eerily reminiscent of Harvey’s aftermath: empty shelves and long lines: “A lot of people are kind of just eyeing your cart and trying to see if they can get anything.
UPDATE: Over the weekend, my parents were released from their 14-day quarantine. The last I heard, they were in a small town in the Aktobe region of Kazakhstan, celebrating with nothing other than a Corona beer. One beer, for the both of them.Chronicling College Students Josee Matela, 21, Boston University
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