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Arianna Thompson had big plans for her pregnancy. A photoshoot. Two baby showers – one in South Bend, Indiana, where she lives, and one with family in...

As the coronavirus has continued to spread, so too have scam artists looking to profit off the pandemic. We’ll talk about bogus miracle cures, con artists promoting fake government relief, and store owners charging $80 for toilet paper. 

For most of us, living through a pandemic is new and frightening, but there can be a certain comfort in learning that people have been through this sort of thing before. Off and on through much of the last millennium, Europeans faced down the Black Death, and documented it in stories.

As planting season approaches, farmers who rely on foreign guest workers are in a bind. Some are turning to their newly unemployed neighbors in small towns for help in the fields.

Today on The 21st, farmers are looking to unemployed Americans to fill positions usually taken by migrant workers, the literature of pandemics past, and scam artists looking to profit off COVID-19.