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Opinion: The spread of Covid-19 and the Boston Marathon: We can run another day

I don't want the #coronavirus to derail my plans to run the Boston Marathon, even though it feels petty to think that way about a novel, sometimes fatal disease we…
Runners at the beginning of the 2014 Boston Marathon in Hopkinton, Mass.

It’s my job to think about the novel coronavirus. As a journalist at STAT, I’ve been steeped in outbreak coverage for several weeks now. Covid-19 first seeped, then flooded, into public health, politics, business, education, and athletics — in other words, life.

And now into my life. I live and run in Boston. That means I

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