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    Reporter's Notebook: Crossing Into Canada Before Coronavirus Closes The Border

    NPR health reporter Selena Simmons-Duffin reflects on her family's decision to travel to Canada to be closer to extended family during the coronavirus pandemic.
    by Selena Simmons-Duffin Mar 22, 2020 2 minutes
    A vehicle enters a Canadian border station at the U.S./Canada border after the two countries closed their border for all non-essential travel in Lansdowne, Ontario, on March 22, 2020.

    It's Monday, March 16, there are about 4,500 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States. I head to work, attend meetings. My daughter's school is closed for two weeks.

    Fast forward, it's Friday night, March 20, I am in a hastily packed car with my family barreling towards the Canadian border. There are 15,219 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. NPR is requiring remote

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