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Coronavirus patients across East Coast turn to social media group for answers, support

Survivor Corps, a two-month-old, 49,400-member Facebook group, is one of thousands of social media forums that have sprung up to discuss the coronavirus. Sick at home, people are together puzzling through their confounding and variable illness, and crowdsourcing their treatment and decision-making.

A video sign about Facebook is shown on a truck at the State Capitol during a rally in Lansing, Mich., Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Barbers and hair stylists are protesting the state's stay-at-home orders, a defiant demonstration that reflects how salons have become a symbol for small businesses that are eager to reopen two months after the COVID-19 pandemic began. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
A video sign about Facebook is shown on a truck at the State Capitol during a rally in Lansing, Mich., Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Barbers and hair stylists are protesting the state's stay-at-home orders, a defiant demonstration that reflects how salons have become a symbol for small businesses that are eager to reopen two months after the COVID-19 pandemic began. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)Read morePaul Sancya / AP
    by Robin Shulman, Washington Post
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