VIRUS DIARY: Facing the coronavirus, still haunted by Ebola

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — “Are you going to die?” my 8-year-old daughter asked me the other day. “They said on the radio that adults are getting sick and dying.” “Maybe you should stay inside.” Instantly I was flooded with the anguish so many parents around the world are carrying right now because we cannot protect our children from these grown-up fears. My daughter already knows parents can die in epidemics. Her biological father was one of them….