The number of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County was 144 as of March 17, with additional cases in nearby counties.

"The strength of a culture is seen, not when things are going well, but when crisis strikes," Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry said March 17 in his St. Patrick's Day homily in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

We cannot allow the coronavirus to make us see others as a threat.

Many hope the church will repeat that activist role as political divisions depress the economy and the living conditions for average Zimbabweans, and as a severe drought threatens a hunger crisis for millions this year.

Medically, the afflictions are quite different, and AIDS in the early days appears to have been much deadlier than Covid-19 today. Socially, the stigma that affected early cases of H.I.V. and AIDS is largely absent today.

Pope Francis prayed for families who are cooped up in their homes and for all those who are ill with COVID-19.