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Your coronavirus questions answered. How is it different from the flu? Can kids go outside to play during 'social distancing'?

18/03/2020 06:00am | 3361 views

by Tom Avril and Marie McCullough

The U.S. as of Saturday afternoon has reported 51 deaths and more than 2,500 confirmed cases of coronavirus illness, dubbed COVID-19, across the country. Cases in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are increasing rapidly and now number in the dozens. A Bergen County man died of complications of the virus, officials announced Tuesday. 

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