New York City's crowded trains each day carry more than 5 million people hardened by terror threats and track-dwelling rats, daylight assaults and diluvial water main breaks. The coronavirus is their latest worry.
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New York Beneath Union Square in Manhattan, Robyn Gershon and others pushed onto the packed subway car until the metal-and-glass doors barely closed. Two stops later, the epidemiology professor at New York University's School of Global Public Health scored a prized seat next to a car door. To her immediate right was a woman fidgeting with a cell phone and another whose face was hidden below the eyes by a white surgical mask. A subway rider leaned on a metal pole a couple of feet away, looking around and pressing a black scarf against her nose and mouth.
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