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POV: it’s a Monday morning in April 2020 and your first period class is in 10 minutes. You pull on your sweatshirt and log onto Zoom—all without leaving your bed. Sound familiar?  For the Class of 2023, this was how we experienced the remainder of our freshman year, after the abrupt shift to distance learning....

In March 2020 my whole family got sick and a few days later we learned that we had all been in contact with a Covid-19 positive friend at a birthday party, featured in New York Times. The party was on March 5 when Covid-19 was beginning to appear in America, despite there being no reported cases in Connecticut. The first case of Covid-19 in Connecticut was on March 8. We quarantined and got tested as soon as possible (no places nearby had Covid-19 tests yet) and learned we were positive. It was...