Read This Before You Fly Anywhere

The risks you need to weigh and the precautions you need to take

Mariana Lenharo
Elemental
Published in
9 min readJun 9, 2020

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Photo: Orbon Alija/Getty Images

It’s been five months since I last saw my husband, João. He is currently alone in our apartment in Newark, New Jersey, while I’m staying with my parents in Ourinhos, a small town in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Due to U.S. immigration procedures, we had been in long-distance relationship mode…

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Mariana Lenharo
Elemental

Science and health journalist with a special interest in evidence-based medicine and epidemics. Columbia Journalism School alumna. mari.lenharo@gmail.com.