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Corona Virus by Numbers


One virus

Two latex gloves

Three thousand confirmed cases

For what reason?

Five years on job, lost 

Six feet apart at all times

Seven weeks at home

Eight-teenth birthday: isolation celebration

Nine nurses overworked and under-payed

Ten billion unanswered prayers

 

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