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The Covid-19 epicentre: Almost everyone knows someone who has died

By Dan Barry and Annie Correal
New York Times·
55 mins to read

As winter turned to spring, the coronavirus hit a corner of Queens harder than almost anywhere else in the United States. Thousands fell ill. Hundreds died. And a nation was put on alert: It was here.

She wears a red wig and a black dress she sewed herself. It hugs her body as she moves about the stage, lip-syncing love songs in Spanish to a room filled mostly with absence.

It is late on March 9, and Yimel Alvarado is

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