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Mar 2020
28m 26s

One City’s Fight to Stop the Virus

The New York Times
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New Rochelle, a suburb north of New York City, has one of the largest clusters of coronavirus infections in the U.S. We visited the community to find out how the containment measures were being implemented and how successful they have been. On today’s episode: Sarah Maslin Nir, a breaking news reporter at The New York Times.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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