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The Problem With China’s Victory Lap
The Chinese Communist Party is trying to present itself as a global leader in pandemic response. If it declares success too early, it may lead the world back into disaster.
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The Chinese Communist Party is trying to present itself as a global leader in pandemic response. If it declares success too early, it may lead the world back into disaster, writes @kgilsinan.
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Trump’s Break With China Has Deadly Consequences
After scuttling its partnership with Beijing on public health, the U.S. was unprepared for the pandemic.
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"The lesson of this plague isn’t that America should stop cooperating with China. It’s that America must rebuild the public-health cooperation that the Trump administration helped destroy," @peterbeinart writes.
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Get Used to it: This Lockdown Won’t Be the Last
New restrictions in Hong Kong show that a single round of constraints won’t be enough to beat the pandemic.
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New restrictions in Hong Kong show that a single round of constraints won’t be enough to beat the pandemic. Lockdowns are the new normal, @TMclaughlin3 writes.
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Watch New Orleans
With the country’s attention turned north, the coronavirus pandemic is exploding in Louisiana.
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All eyes are on the coronavirus outbreaks in California, New York, and Washington State. But Louisiana's developing public-health crisis is a looming iceberg, Vann R. Newkirk II writes.
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The Coronavirus-Denial Movement Now Has a Leader: Jair Bolsonaro
The Brazilian president has lashed out against local officials who have implemented severe lockdowns, accusing them of destroying the country.
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The Brazilian president has lashed out against local officials who have implemented severe lockdowns, accusing them of destroying the country, @UriLF reports on Jair Bolsonaro, leader of the COVID-19 denial movement
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Diary of a COVID-19 Patient
“To—literally—live and let live will be enough.”
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“Aside from when I couldn’t breathe and didn’t have the nebulizer; when I passed out walking from the living room into my bedroom; when I cough; and at night, when it all feels much worse—I’ve been okay.” @dcopaken on weathering her COVID-19 diagnosis
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India Is Showing How Not to Respond to a Pandemic
The government’s response has been slow, blunt, and callous.
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"Today, we are three days into a three-week nationwide lockdown, a heavy restriction on a nation of 1.3 billion people that Modi and his government have insisted will help defeat the virus," @VidyaKrishnan writes. "It may well be too late."
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The Coronavirus Is Demonstrating the Value of Globalization
We are experiencing a painful introduction to anti-globalism and its consequences.
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"Globalization is suspended only for the duration, governments insist. But if we are not very careful now, during the crisis, the duration will extend itself indefinitely," @davidfrum writes.
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"Globalization is suspended only for the duration, governments insist. But if we are not very careful now, during the crisis, the duration will extend itself indefinitely," @davidfrum writes.
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A New York Doctor’s Warning
China warned Italy. Italy warned us. We didn’t listen. Now the onus is on the rest of America to listen to New York.
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"China warned Italy. Italy warned us. We didn’t listen. Now the onus is on the rest of America to listen to New York."
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"China warned Italy. Italy warned us. We didn’t listen. Now the onus is on the rest of America to listen to New York."
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‘The Fact That I Can’t Fix Things Now Is Breaking My Heart’
In the restaurant industry, how to get cash to out-of-work servers—and food to gig workers suddenly without income—is the question on everyone’s mind.
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“We're fixers. In restaurants you have to fix things in a minute's time … The fact that I can't fix things now is breaking my heart.” @CKummer reports on the small businesses trying desperately to tide over their workers during the pandemic
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Springtime for Introverts
The world has caught up with us at last.
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"All our lives, introverts have known there was something wrong with large parties. We just couldn’t quite put our finger on what it was, and even if we could, we would have probably kept it to ourselves," Andrew Ferguson writes.
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The Coronavirus Has Tied Us to Earth
Space missions around the world are on hold—a poignant reminder of how the pandemic has upended civilization.
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Postponed space missions are a drop in the bucket of coronavirus-related delays around the world, but they provide the starkest reminder of something fundamental: This is the only planet we have, @marinakoren writes.
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Postponed space missions are a drop in the bucket of coronavirus-related delays around the world, but they provide the starkest reminder of something fundamental: This is the only planet we have, @marinakoren writes.
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I’m Treating Too Many Young People for the Coronavirus
Americans in their 20s and 30s—no matter how healthy and invincible they feel—need to understand how dangerous this virus can be.
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"Young people with no clear underlying health conditions are getting seriously ill from COVID-19 in significant numbers. And young Americans—no matter how healthy and invincible they feel—need to understand that," @kerrymeltzer writes
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Social Distance: Not a Two-Week Problem
Dr. James Hamblin and Katherine Wells take a walk to the grocery store and discuss what the next week—and the next year—may look like in the U.S.
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Social Distance: Dr. @jameshamblin and @katlwells take a walk to the grocery store and discuss what the next week—and the next year—may look like in the U.S.
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Abortion Opponents Take Advantage of a Crisis
Officials hope to achieve their goal of effectively banning the procedure.
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"You have to hand it to the anti-abortion movement for taking full advantage of the social and medical crisis into which the coronavirus has plunged the nation," @KathaPollitt writes.
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What Do the Healthy Owe to the Vulnerable?
The debate over reopening the country has an uncanny parallel to one of the ugliest political fights of the past decade.
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How much do the healthiest people in society owe the most vulnerable? That question was at the core of the fight over repealing Obamacare, and it’s resurfacing now, @RonBrownstein writes.
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We’re Finding Out How Small Our Lives Really Are
No new friends. No new plans. Where is there to go in isolation but backwards and inward?
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There are no new friends in a pandemic. No exciting plans to be made. Nowhere to go but backwards and inward. @skornhaber on the strangeness of social isolation
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How Panic-Buying Revealed the Problem With the Modern World
The pandemic has shown how just-in-time systems are also fragile.
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In the current crisis, the country has not run out of essential goods such as toilet paper; the difficulty is getting them onto the shelves quickly enough, @helenlewis writes.
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The Four Possible Timelines for Life Returning to Normal
The coronavirus outbreak may last for a year or two, but some elements of pre-pandemic life will likely be won back in the meantime.
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How long will we have to live like this? @jpinsk lays out four possible timelines for life returning to (somewhat) normal
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The Fog of Pandemic
Are we winning the war against the coronavirus? The answer to that question right now is simple but infuriating: We don’t know.
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"What we’re experiencing now is the fog of pandemic. The officials tracking COVID-19 are swimming in statistics: infection rates, case-fatality ratios, economic data. But ... these figures each have their own particular limitations," @DKThomp writes.
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