FILE - In this March 25, 2020, file photo, a closed sign hangs in the window of a shop in Portsmouth, N.H. Most of the restaurant and retail businesses in the city have closed, with some offering takeout or pick-up orders, due to the virus outbreak. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
March 29, 2020
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March 29, 2020 3:26 p.m.
In virus times, have Americans found a shared experience?
As an uneasy March unspooled, as coronavirus dread descended upon the United States, it became commonplace — and, for public figures, quite practical — to point out how, unlike most major events in the 21st century, this was an unusually communal moment.