How Long Can Gyms Survive?

After a wave of bankruptcies and no end to the pandemic in sight, gyms are taking desperate measures to stay alive

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
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9 min readOct 29, 2020

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Illustration: Alex Kiesling

When CNN anchor Chris Cuomo announced his positive coronavirus diagnosis in late March, Americans were rapt as the usually robust newsman, ashen and quarantining in his basement, struggled with the then-mysterious virus that had…

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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
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Historian @thenewschool. Author of CLASSROOM WARS; working on FIT NATION. Host @pastpresentpod. Twitter/IG @nataliapetrzela.