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Researchers say the coronavirus outbreak in New York City became the primary source of infections around the United States. 1/19

Plane travel was already rife with small indignities. An anecdotal report finds it’s even worse right now. 2/19

A fundraiser to help Native Americans fight the outbreak takes off in Ireland, with donations paying tribute to aid from the Choctaw tribe during the 1847 famine. 3/19

What it’s like for a comedian when a last-minute impersonation of the president goes massively viral. 4/19

People who lack high-speed internet at home sit in library parking lots to grab free and fast connections. 5/19

A high school newspaper editor publishes a pandemic edition. 6/19

Laura McGann sums up a year of reporting on Tara Reade's allegation against Joe Biden: "the most difficult story I've grappled with since I started covering questions of gender and power during the #MeToo era." 7/19

Ida B. Wells wins a posthumous Pulitzer for reporting on horrific violence against African Americans during the lynching era. 8/19

As of yesterday, Ahmaud Arbery would have been 26 years old. 9/19

Under the threat of pandemic, some African leaders fear criticism over the poor state of their public services. 10/19

With only about 47,118 cases and 1,843 deaths, Africa is an outlier during the pandemic. Some theories why. 11/19

Watching his father be buried in Uganda on Zoom, Eric Mwine-Mugaju also lost part of his culture. 12/19

Little Richard dies at 87; a cause of death has not been reported. 13/19

A dozen-plus New York artists capture what they see outside their windows. 14/19

Today's exercise in soothe: Listen to recorded music as if it’s being played in empty malls. 15/19

See also: When a dance challenge is performed by professionals; a man tries to help his mother install Zoom; photographs of horses in Iceland and penguins in Australia. 16/19

Singapore deploys canine robots to remind people of safe distancing measures. 17/19

A taxonomy of the pandemic’s “greatest meme hits” (for a minuscule slice of the global population, we'd point out). 18/19

The 1918 flu pandemic haunts modernist literature, but you need to know where to look. 19/19

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