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Fiona Lewinstein is in her Manhattan apartment when she contracts COVID-19.

I often say that I feel like the virus, like, came straight for me.

It's March 10, 2020.

Just as more cases of a novel coronavirus are starting to pop in New York City.

On this night, Fiona's friend Sabrina is over to discuss some work.

The two are organizers of a queer feminist collective that holds

events in New York City. It's called Body Politics. And we were sitting there and we were like,

what's going on with this whole virus thing? And she got an email from her work saying that she didn't

have to come in the next day, that they were going to start, you know, take a few days off.

Midway through the evening, Sabrina turns pale and suddenly doesn't feel well.

We both kind of looked at each other like, is it, could it, you know, you don't even want to speak it out loud.

And of course, at that point, there were, I think, maybe one case of community spread confirmed in New York City,

so it really didn't seem very likely.

But just in case we were like, you should go home right away, go home, you know, to sleep it off.

And I, you know, did a light maybe cleaning of my apartment.

Three days later, Fiona starts feeling unwell.

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