8:00 AM ETWright ThompsonSenior Writer CloseWright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN and is executive producer of TrueSouth and co-executive producer of Backstory. He is the author of New York Times bestselling The Cost of These Dreams.OXFORD, Miss. — On Wednesday, someone sent me a video clip of a quarantined Italian man playing the…
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What Is a Quarantine?
As the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 continues its relentless spread across the globe—the World Health Organization officially declared it a pandemic Wednesday—governments have been struggling mightily to get the crisis under control. Their ultimate goal isn’t to stop the virus in its tracks, as cases have already spread too widely for that, but to “flatten the…