A notice on the door of Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, explains that it is closed to in-person visits on Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in El Paso, Texas. Inside, Escobar answered questions from constituents during in a virtual town hall about the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)
March 23, 2020
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March 23, 2020 1:35 p.m.
The new town hall: Anxiety, fear and few satisfying answers
CHICAGO (AP) — A Michigan woman recounted for her congressman how she and her feverish 82-year-old husband were sent away from an almost empty emergency room after a fruitless, dayslong effort to get him tested for COVID-19. “Where are the sick people going?” she wanted to know.