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Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York, on April 7, 2020. (John Nacion/STAR MAX/IPx)

What is HIPAA and how does it affect our understanding of the coronavirus?

The widely misunderstood act is being invoked to limit access to COVID-19 data
From top: Someone has been setting up a table of free bagged lunches for those in need outside the Arundel Beach Road traffic circle in Severna Park.(Selene San Felice/Capital Gazette) Bottom right: Sydney Hoover covers schools in Eudora, Kansas from her home in De Soto, Kansas. (Image courtesy Sydney Hoover) Bottom middle: Arlene Van Dyk is a critical care nurse at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck. (Photo: Jeff Rhode Holy Name Hospital/Special to NorthJersey.com) Bottom left: Storytellers project founder and director, Megan Finnerty. (Photo: Jeremiah Toller)

Looking for the helpers? Look at local news.

In this March 20, 2020 photo, Nadia Muñoz helps her son Luka with his online lessons from a private Catholic school, at their home in an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Lima, Peru. For the makeup artist and her family, Lima's near-total 15-day quarantine hasn’t been too disruptive. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Could the coronavirus pandemic actually build family relationships? Some experts think so.

Plus, a surge in medical waste might be coming, why some doctors are questioning ventilator use, business burglaries are up and more.
Sydney Hoover covers schools in Eudora, Kansas from her home in De Soto, Kansas. (Image courtesy Sydney Hoover)

The student reporters taking on COVID-19 from their childhood bedrooms

In Eudora, Kansas, the local news comes from college students
A viral Tweet from user Hiam Abbas shows a packed subway car in New York City on March 30, 2020.

Are some New Yorker commuters failing hard at social distancing?

An image circulating online of an overcrowded New York City subway car is legitimate. It was taken on March 30, during evening rush hour.
Mike Lemcke, from Richmond, Virginia, sits in an empty Greensboro Coliseum after the NCAA college basketball games were canceled at the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown)

What’s a sports journalist to do when the coronavirus cancels all the games? As it turns out, plenty.

At The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, sports reporters have found plenty to cover, in the sports world and otherwise.
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