John Schwartz
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FEMA Says at Least 7 People at the Disaster Agency Have the Coronavirus
Nytimes.com 4h 5 tweets
Union officials at FEMA say they would like to know where they work in order to warn other employees who might be exposed and to avoid putting the public at added risk.
John Schwartz SCOOP from and The agency leading the nation’s coronavirus response said that seven of its employees had tested positive for the virus with another four cases pending — but won't say where they work. 4h
Now Is the Time to Take Care of Your Lungs. Here’s How.
Nytimes.com 38h 6 tweets
If you’re one millions of Americans exposed to air pollution, you may be at a greater risk of catching the coronavirus — and of having a more severe infection.
The Lost Month: How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to Covid-19
Abby Goodnough, Katie Thomas, Michael D. Shear, Sheila Kaplan - Nytimes.com 10h 66 tweets
Aggressive screening might have helped contain the coronavirus in the United States. But technical flaws, regulatory hurdles and lapses in leadership let it spread undetected for weeks.
John Schwartz The test mess. Brilliant reporting from 8h
Trump’s Dangerous Messaging About a Possible Coronavirus Treatment
The New Yorker 28h 6 tweets
The President has continued to recommend a combination of drugs that are unproven in fighting the novel coronavirus and are known to cause dangerous side effects.
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John Schwartz “There’s very few things that make me clench up inside, and hydroxychloroquine is on the short list, because it’s so toxic.” The dangers of getting ahead of the clinical trial science and calling a drug a miracle cure 9h
The Last Best Time
Whatever 10h 1 tweets
Three fridays ago I was lying in bed on the Nieuw Amsterdam, the cruise ship that the JoCo Cruise was sailing on this year, trying to decide whether or not I wanted to bother getting my ass up, heading down to the tender boats and going over to Half...
John Schwartz What a lovely essay from on fully enjoying the in a pause before the shutdowns began. 10h
Covid-19 Brings Out All the Usual Zombies
Paul Krugman - Nytimes.com 13h 2 tweets
Why virus denial resembles climate denial
John Schwartz The coronavirus/climate denial nexus: "Once you dismiss people who look at evidence on the effects of tax cuts and the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, you’re already primed to dismiss people who look at evidence on disease transmission." 10h
New Orleans Restaurants, Used to Disasters, Reckon With Something Worse
Brett Anderson - Nytimes.com 14h 2 tweets
The dining and bar scene, so central to the city’s identity, emerged strong from Hurricane Katrina. But the coronavirus crisis is different.
John Schwartz “I just texted members of our family, and I told them, ‘This reminds me of Katrina,’ ” said Stella Reese Chase, who manages her family’s restaurant, Dooky Chase’s. on restaurants as part of NOLA's soul. 10h
New Rochelle, Once a Coronavirus Hot Spot, May Now Offer Hope
Sarah Maslin Nir, Sharon Otterman - Nytimes.com 28h 8 tweets
“Everybody talks about flattening the curve, and I think that’s exactly what we were able to do,” a health official said.
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John Schwartz Confinement orders in New Rochelle may be working: “In effect, it felt like we were being punished,” resident Samuel Heilman said. “But the punishment turned out to be a blessing in disguise. This is really a case of perspective.” 12h
A Heart Attack? No, It Was the Coronavirus
Gina Kolata - Nytimes.com 26h 16 tweets
Cardiologists are seeing infected patients whose worst symptoms are not respiratory, but cardiac.
John Schwartz “We were thinking lungs, lungs, lungs — with us in a supportive role,” said Dr. John Rumsfeld, chief science and quality officer at the American College of Cardiology. “Then all of a sudden we began to hear about potential direct impact on the heart.” 12h
Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, Civil Rights Leader and Aide to King, Dies at 98
Nytimes.com 18h 7 tweets
A lieutenant to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. Lowery helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott and gave the benediction at President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
John Schwartz Mr. Lowery often recalled the day a policeman jabbed him in the stomach with a nightstick, when he was about 11 years old. Using a racial epithet, the officer said, “Don’t you see a white man coming in the door?” 13h
‘We Take the Dead From Morning Till Night’
Jason Horowitz - Nytimes.com 42h 28 tweets
No country has been hit harder by the coronavirus than Italy, and no province has suffered as many losses as Bergamo. Photos and voices from there evoke a portrait of despair.
Arnold Obey, 73, Educator and Marathoner, Dies
Frances Robles - Nytimes.com 25h 3 tweets
Mr. Obey was a veteran school principal who took to marathoning and kept at it — 38 times in a row in the New York City Marathon.
A Dynamic Farewell From a Longtime Rights Leader
Nytimes.com 16h 1 tweets
Rev Joseph E Lowry, president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, delivers farewell address at gathering in Atlanta; recalls some high points of his 40 years with organization; photo (M)
Those We’ve Lost
Nytimes.com 29h 5 tweets
This series tells the stories of people who have died of the coronavirus.
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John Schwartz NEW from The New York Times Obits desk: Those We've Lost. Lives of the victims of the coronavirus. 29h
We’re Sharing Coronavirus Case Data for Every U.S. County
Nytimes.com 39h 31 tweets
With no detailed government database on where the thousands of coronavirus cases have been reported, a team of New York Times journalists is attempting to track every case.
I Became a Disciplined Investor Over 40 Years. The Virus Broke Me In 40 Days.
James B. Stewart - Nytimes.com 40h 3 tweets
I’ve survived — and even prospered through — four stock-market crashes. But nothing prepared me for this.
John Schwartz The brilliant looked at the staggered market and thought, "Nothing I experienced in the past prepared me for the speed of this market crash." And then he bought. 37h
U.S. Coronavirus Testing Hits Milestone but Still Falls Short
Nytimes.com 40h 18 tweets
The pace of coronavirus testing in the United States has seen a meteoric rise in the past week. But the country still lags in tests relative to its population, despite having the world’s most reported coronavirus cases.
John Schwartz More tests than other countries, yes. Number of tests per capita? Lagging. 38h
A Different Kind of Storm: New Orleans Facing Deadly Virus Outbreak
Campbell Robertson, Richard Fausset - Nytimes.com 3d 12 tweets
Louisiana may be experiencing the world’s fastest growth in new cases. Medical experts said Mardi Gras might have accelerated the crisis.
John Schwartz “The greatest free party in the world was a perfect incubator at the perfect time.” A brilliant, haunting story from 39h
The New York Times Releases Its Dataset of U.S. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases
The New York Times Company 40h 1 tweets
Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients
Denise Grady - Nytimes.com 50h 13 tweets
In people who have recovered, plasma is teeming with antibodies that may fight the virus. But the treatment beginning in New York is experimental.
John Schwartz “You see this steamroller coming at you, and you don’t want to sit there passively and let it roll over you. So you put together everything you have to try to fight it." From 40h