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By Sarah Frier and Emily Chang

April 17, 2020 at 10:49 PM UTC

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Instagram’s founders, who have been mostly out of the public eye since leaving Facebook Inc. in 2018, introduced a website that gives live state-by-state updates on the spread of Covid-19.