One hundred thousand.
More than 100,000 people in the US have now died of the coronavirus. 1/29
Public health experts say the CDC's new COVID-19 death rate estimates are too low, and accuse the agency of bowing to political pressure to minimize the deadliness of the coronavirus. 2/29
So far, predominantly Democratic counties have been hit harder by the coronavirus—due to population density, race, and economics. 3/29
"It is coming, and it's going to be more of a checkerboard." In May, confirmed cases of COVID-19 surged in rural America. 4/29
A crowdsourced map tracks COVID-19 symptoms. 5/29
New Zealand has discharged its last coronavirus patient from the hospital. 6/29
Related: How have some countries brought their new cases of the coronavirus down to zero? "Swift and decisive leadership." 7/29
New surveillance video of George Floyd shows he wasn't resisting arrest before police murdered him. Also: How George Floyd's friends remember him. 8/29
Boris Johnson stands by a senior aide who flouted lockdown for a family trip; in the UK, unlike the US, he's in trouble for it. 9/29
When the plague hit Marseille in 1720, officials began a misinformation campaign—even hiring doctors to claim it was only a fever. 10/29
How an increase in disposable income in post-plague England gave rise to pub culture. 11/29
According to Census Bureau data, a third of Americans are showing signs of clinical anxiety or depression during the pandemic. 12/29
The EPA is investigating why San Francisco received a violation—after Trump said the city was letting drug needles into the ocean. 13/29
Following Trump's outrage this week over Twitter fact-checking him, the president will sign an executive order today to roll back liability protections for tech companies. 14/29
Mark Zuckerberg says Twitter shouldn't be fact-checking Trump. 15/29
Why Facebook's First Amendment analogy doesn't hold water: Political figures are allowed to lie on Facebook, but we are not. 16/29
See also: "An internal Facebook report presented to executives in 2018 found that the company was well aware that its product, specifically its recommendation engine, stoked divisiveness and polarization." 17/29
From the archives: "What I didn't write about when I wrote about quitting Facebook." 18/29
Fervent AIDS activist and playwright Larry Kramer has died at 84. See his impassioned "plague" speech from 1991. 19/29
As early as 1983, the KGB began a disinformation campaign that AIDS started as a US government biological weapons experiment. 20/29
Six Flags begins reopening next week, and will use thermal imaging to screen temperatures and require visitors to wear masks. 21/29
Photos of various types of plastic barriers put up to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. 22/29
"Should she be defined by that, you know, couple-of-seconds moment? I can't answer that." An interview with Christian Cooper, the birder accosted in Central Park by a white woman who threatened to call the police on him—"I'm going to tell them there's an African-American man threatening my life"—when he asked her to leash her dog. 23/29
Related: Birding while black. 24/29
Watch: Multiple local TV news stations aired Amazon-scripted segments touting the company's worker safety. 25/29
Ahead of a fall publish date, J.K. Rowling is serializing her new children's book "about truth and the abuse of power" for free. 26/29
Ikea publishes instructions for using its products to build blanket forts. 27/29
Summer never ends at the chillest place on the internet, Poolside.fm, which crossed a million listening sessions in the past year. 28/29
Photos that explore the regenerative nature of plants and vegetation—not pristine, but in a state of change—by Giona Bridler. 29/29
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