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  • NYC hospitals are sending patients home if their symptoms are not too severe. The New Yorker reports many have "returned days later, having swiftly deteriorated."
  • Is Trump withholding aid to NYC because Governor Andrew Cuomo isn't groveling enough?
  • Prince Charles and Jackson Browne, both 71, are the latest big names to test positive for COVID-19.
  • Here is a distressing first person piece about what it’s like when your loved one is struck with coronavirus: "The few people walking past us on the sidewalk don’t know that we are visitors from the future. A vision, a premonition, a walking visitation."
  • The NYC taxi industry, which was already in deep trouble, has been decimated even more so by coronavirus.
  • I can't believe I have to write this, but please don't lick a row of deodorants at Walmart.
  • Floyd Cardoz, a pioneering Mumbai-born chef behind NYC restaurants Tabla and Bombay Bread Bar, has reportedly died from COVID-19.
  • A photographer documented her surreal flight home from Newark Airport to her family in Tel Aviv during the pandemic.
  • If you need some fresh air but want to avoid crowds, you could always drop by Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, which has extended its visiting hours.
  • You can continue to support your local NYC booksellers, including workers from McNally Jackson, WORD, the Strand, and Book Culture, during this crisis by shopping at The Bookstore at the End of the World.
  • Deerhoof announced new album Future Teenage Cave Artists, coming out May 29th, and released two new singles.
  • And finally, this seems like a metaphor for something: