Little did reporter Alice Stockton-Rossini know when she began covering the coronovirus outbreak in New York that she would unwittingly bring the germs home to Ship Bottom and infect members of her family and community, including her 90-year-old mother.

“I was covering the story as this coronavirus was marching towards reality,” said Stockton-Rossini, who was on the front lines, reporting on the rapidly developing COVID-19 for NBC.