Olympic Games organizers meet via teleconference today to discuss the coronavirus’s impact on the 2020 Tokyo Games. 1/22 How to play tennis in a time of cholera. 2/22 Norway’s leader holds a press conference just for children to reassure them. Also: A nice example of a
Correction: An earlier version of this newsletter suggested we're switching to full-time Covid coverage. Not so! With all that's happening, we're simply switching to six days of newsletters, not five—to give you all the news and not-news we're known
For the foreseeable future, this newsletter will run six days a week and emphasize the best stories we find around the coronavirus outbreak. Feel free to tip us to great stories, and share with others if you like! There are now more reported cases of the coronavirus outside than inside
The House passes a coronavirus economic relief package that includes paid sick leave, unemployment insurance, free testing, and money for food stamps. 1/27 As to what’s next in the Senate: More legislating. 2/27 Some Covid-19 resources: Statistics updated live; envelope calculations by a virus expert; Johns
Correction: The story we included in an earlier edition of this newsletter about the actor Tom Hanks was a spoof. (D'oh!) This is no time for misinformation, and we'll do better over the coming days to scrutinize our links. Our apologies.—ed. “No one alive has
“No one alive has ever experienced what the next two months will be like around the world, but here we are.” 1/24 In South Korea, the number of new cases now is less than the number of patients who recovered. 2/24 Italy has over 10,000 cases of
The coronavirus is now officially a pandemic. President Trump orders a month-long travel ban to the US from Europe. Americans snap to attention as big events get cancelled. 1/25 Congress's in-house doctor tells Capitol Hill staffers that he expects 70-150 million people in the
Biden closes in on the Democratic nomination with primary wins in Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi and Idaho. 1/19 Coronavirus cases pass 115,000 worldwide, including at least 1,000 in the US. 2/19 "In most cases, symptoms are mild, and young people are at very low risk."
Last week Trump told aides he's afraid that journalists will try to purposefully contract coronavirus to give it to him on Air Force One. 1/20 “None of us want to be Chicken Little, but there is too much consistent data to not begin to rattle the cage
China’s cases of Covid-19 are finally declining, which suggests the virus may have peaked there (for now). 1/22 An editor at CNBC Business News suggests giving every American the coronavirus—meaning about 11 million deaths—to calm the markets. 2/22 What the fight against Ebola can
