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advertisementadvertisementBy Lindsey D. Cameron and Alex Rosenblat In early March, Din, an Uber driver in Baltimore, took a passenger home who had a violent cough. Din (all names in this article are pseudonyms) came down with COVID-19 a few days later.advertisementadvertisement“My throat became all sore,” he says. “I had a fever, sweating—I couldn’t sleep. I stayed in the house for two weeks, even without stepping outside. Then I put my mask [on] and then went out, bought some food, came back again, stayed for two weeks.”Unable to work for two months, Din slowly sold all his furniture and...…advertisementadvertisementBy Lindsey D. Cameron and Alex Rosenblat In early March, Din, an Uber driver in Baltimore, took a passenger home who had a violent cough. Din (all names in this article are pseudonyms) came down with COVID-19 a few days later.advertisementadvertisement“My throat became all sore,” he says. “I had a fever, sweating—I couldn’t sleep. I stayed in the house for two weeks, even without stepping outside. Then I put my mask [on] and then went out, bought some food, came back again, stayed for two weeks.”Unable to work for two months, Din slowly sold all his furniture and...WW…
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