COVID-19 stories:
Meet Dr. Dennis Carroll, the infectious disease expert who saw the coronavirus outbreak coming: “We’re in for some serious trouble.” (Nautilus, ~14 min.)
How coronavirus has brought the idea of American infallibility to its knees. (The Atlantic, ~11 min.)
Parents practicing coronavirus isolation are up to their necks. Whether you’re child-free or at home with kids, too, here’s what you need to know about getting through this crazy time. (BuzzFeed News, ~21 min.)
The first reporter in the Western world to spot the coronavirus — on Dec. 31 — is a self-taught flu-tracking hobbyist with a blog. (Washington Post, ~5 min.)
Inside the National Quarantine Center, the nation’s only federal quarantine facility, where top medical professionals are in a race against time fighting the outbreak. (Esquire, ~15 min.)
A group of friends went off the grid for 25 days to raft the Grand Canyon. They returned to find a world in the grip of a frightening pandemic. (New York Times, ~6 min.)
In this dispatch from the outbreak’s front line, a respiratory therapist describes the lung failure he’s witnessing in his coronavirus patients — even young ones. (ProPublica, ~8 min.)
We’ve always suspected the rules that govern our lives are arbitrary; now, thanks to coronavirus, we know it’s true. (Slate, ~6 min.)
Coronavirus may give Earth a short-lived breather on climate change, but it’ll make things worse in the long term. (MIT, ~3 min.)
Residents of a conservative New Orleans suburb were mocking coronavirus in person and on social media. Then one of their own landed in the ICU. (New York Times, ~9 min.)
A terrific profile of Anthony Fauci, the government's top coronavirus doctor. (Washington Post, ~12 min.)
Keep walking your dog — it may be the only activity that feels normal while we’re all in isolation. (The Cut, ~7 min.)
The reason we’re all so unsettled? There truly is no precedent for this in our lifetimes. (BuzzFeed News, ~4 min.)
How coronavirus could change our lives, our society … everything. (Politico, ~34 min.)
The best of the rest:
In December, a Columbia freshman was murdered just feet from campus in a New York City park. Now, the university community, its Harlem neighbors, and the city are embroiled in a debate over what urban safety really means. (New York Magazine, ~34 min.)
What would a Green New Deal actually entail? AOC gets into the details. (Rolling Stone, ~14 min.)
Two women named Sarah went back to work after having babies — one in Seattle and one in Stockholm. Their experiences could not have been more different. (Harvard Business Review, ~14 min.)
In kitchens across America, beans are all the rage. What’s the deal? (The Cut, ~5 min.)
Homeless moms in Oakland were fed up with local housing policy that kept them on the streets. So they banded together, got organized, and decided to occupy a vacant house owned by a corporation. (California Sunday, ~21 min.)
The best — and most original — Bernie Sanders postmortem I’ve read. (New York Review of Books, ~20 min.)
Longtime activist Barbara Ehrenreich (author of Nickel and Dimed) talks socialism, Trump, and mayo with millennial writer Jia Tolentino. (New Yorker, ~26 min.)
Whatever happened to Cora, Leonardo DiCaprio’s “best girl” from Titanic? (Vice, ~10 min.)
An artist was perusing eBay when he came across an old black-and-white photo of a snowman. Now he’s a top collector of antique snowman snaps. This story, and the accompanying pics, made my week. (New York Times, ~2 min.)
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