The president, facing grim figures from his health advisers, starkly reversed an earlier upbeat assessment that the country could relax the guidelines by Easter. Amid calls for more transparency, a debate is raging among public health experts over how much data on the spread of the virus should be released. Officials in Washington State worry that their gains are precarious, but they see evidence that containment strategies have lowered the rate of virus transmission. After SARS, Chinese health officials built an infectious disease reporting system to evade political meddling. But when the coronavirus emerged, so did fears of upsetting Beijing. “Thousands of people will pass away,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned as Mayor Bill de Blasio said New York City had a week’s worth of medical supplies. New York City’s 75,000 public school educators are facing a challenge unlike anything in their careers. For students to avoid permanent setbacks, the success of remote learning is critical. Unused emergency gurneys, a defining image from 9/11, have much to tell us today, when there isn’t a bed to spare. A veteran E.R. nurse explains. For a leader who has embraced the language of a wartime president, it is as if the Pentagon asked for missiles and bombers but wouldn’t say how many or where they should be delivered. As the coronavirus spreads, the collapse of the project helps explain America’s acute shortage. In France and the rest of Europe, the affluent decamp cities to spend their confinement in vacation homes, widening class divides. The decision by the school’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr., to partly reopen his evangelical university enraged residents of Lynchburg, Va. Then students started getting sick. To curb the risk of spreading the coronavirus, hospitals nationwide are banning visits from family and friends. Party conventions are in jeopardy, campaigning is on hold and local candidates are playing the role of good Samaritan instead of traditional politician. Riding along with French troops hunting Islamist militants in France’s unwinnable West African war. An editor at The Times shares an intimate essay about her family’s fight against the pandemic. Don’t underestimate the moral anguish of deciding who gets a ventilator. Humanity has been surviving plagues for thousands of years, and we have managed to learn a lot along the way. Don’t be fooled by snapshot polls. Every disaster shakes loose the old order. What replaces it is up to us. There’s so much I did two months ago that seems ludicrous now. People here are stocking up on groceries and toilet paper — and guns and ammo and, soon, morel mushrooms. Trump wants us to see him as defeating a foreign enemy. My childhood friend has joined America’s “deaths of despair.” We ask readers for examples of how the pandemic has brought out the best in humanity. Derek Fordjour and the gallery that once worked with him are battling in court over pieces he promised to create before his career took off. Names big and small are pivoting to online humor, but the standouts are the character-driven performers who were there all along, especially Meg Stalter. Jonesboro, Ark., came through a devastating tornado without any deaths, partly because businesses were closed and people were sheltered at home from the coronavirus. A group of residents from an island town in Maine cut down a tree and dragged it into the middle of a road. He was known for his ballads and honky-tonk singles, like “Home” and “Pickup Man.” On Friday, he announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. All on board, including a doctor, a nurse and foreign nationals, were killed after the plane, used in the country’s coronavirus response, caught fire as it took off in Manila for Japan. In response to some private hospitals’ decision to bar partners, New York will order all hospitals to allow partners in delivery rooms, despite the coronavirus risk. The coronavirus is likely to hasten the end of advertising-driven media, our columnist writes. And government should not rescue it. After spending billions to avoid a repeat of 2016, the tech giants are careening from crisis to crisis as their foes change tactics. Mr. Sorkin, who died of the coronavirus, promoted social justice in his prodigious output of essays, lectures and designs. Amid the pandemic, the producers of dystopian dramas like “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Westworld” see their work in a different light. More Recent Articles |
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