34 days of pandemic: Inside Trump’s desperate attempts to reopen America (WaPo)
The epidemiological models under review in the White House Situation Room in late March were bracing. In a best-case scenario, they showed...
The Coronavirus is rewriting our imaginations (New Yorker)
What felt impossible has become thinkable. The spring of 2020 is suggestive of how much, and how quickly, we can change...
Deadly leaps (Grist)
These scientists saw the coronavirus coming. Now they're trying to stop the next pandemic before it starts.
We need COVID-19 treatments ASAP — but a perverse incentive could slow pharma breakthroughs...
Gilead, the company behind the promising antiviral remdesivir, had two blockbuster HIV medications. Here’s what happened.
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Covid-19’s third shock wave: The global food crisis (Nation)
Many people are already going hungry in the United States; many more will face hunger or starvation in other parts of...
How profit and incompetence delayed N95 masks while people died at the VA (ProPublica)
Federal agencies have hired contractors with no experience to find respirators and masks, fueling a black market filled with price gouging...
Vector in Chief (NY Review of Books)
On July 4, 1775, just his second day serving as commander-in-chief of the American revolutionary forces, George Washington issued strict orders to...
The restaurant bail-out won’t save my pop-up. The government won’t save black America. (Esquire)
Before COVID-19, Omar Tate opened a portal to Blackness with his lauded pop-up Honeysuckle. Now he's back home in Philly, searching...
As death toll passes 60,000, Trump’s team searches for an exit strategy (Politico)
The coronavirus continues to exceed benchmarks set by the president, with no clarity about the risks ahead.
Why the Coronavirus is so confusing (Atlantic)
On March 27, as the U.S. topped 100,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, Donald Trump stood at the lectern of the White House...
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