Cailin Sandvig checks on her 10-month-old twins, Milo, left, and Aurelia, as the family, including husband Justin Bracken, prepares to leave home in the Crown Heights neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York to avoid the spread of COVID-19, Monday, March 16, 2020. "We are fleeing the city," said Sandvig, who works remotely for her job. "We are going to end up in Wheaton, Illinois, where we have a big old house to be in with my mom that's otherwise empt…
March 20, 2020
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Fleeing virus for resort homes, some find welcome mat yanked
OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — Some city folk have been fleeing to their second homes in resort areas to ride out the coronavirus outbreak near the beach or the ski slopes. But neighbors in many of those places are yanking the welcome mat — fearing infection and the overwhelming of already stretched resources in sleepy shore and mountain communities.