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The US lost another vital month in responding to COVID-19, pretty much plateauing in its number of daily coronavirus tests. 1/26

The White House says its coronavirus task force will wrap up around the end of this month. 2/26

A series of interactive simulations to explain how epidemics grow. 3/26

According to a complaint filed with the House Oversight Committee, Kushner's coronavirus team had people assigned to tasks for which they had no relevant experience. 4/26

The government scientist who said he resisted political pressure to push the use of hydroxychloroquine has now filed a whistleblower complaint. 5/26

Contradicting Trump and Pompeo's claims, intelligence assessments say the coronavirus likely came from a Chinese market, not a lab. 6/26

Fifteen children in New York City have been hospitalized with a multi-organ inflammatory illness possibly related to the coronavirus. 7/26

For some good health news: A fungal, parasitic microbe looks like it protects mosquitoes against malaria. 8/26

US cities are taking advantage of empty streets by accelerating planned or delayed construction projects. 9/26

"The days of logging off at the end of the workday and focusing on other things until morning...might be gone for good." 10/26

As the Korea Baseball Organization's season begins this week on ESPN, a KBO primer for MLB fans hungry for live baseball. 11/26

See also: A video compilation of South Korean baseball's tradition of bat flipping, a move that's regarded as an affront in American baseball. 12/26

Largely forgotten, Switzerland's outdoor exercise stations have seen a resurgence in popularity during the pandemic. 13/26

This weekend, a right-wing American entrepreneur tried to launch a coup in Venezuela via amphibious invasion. It failed. 14/26

"As in 1918, people are again hearing hollow assurances at odds with the reality of hospitals and morgues filling up." 15/26

"I will not know what to do with myself." Letters from the 1918 quarantine that could have been written in 2020. 16/26

Photos documenting Brooklyn stoop life during quarantine, by Francesca Magnani. 17/26

Late-night hosts are proving that sometimes we really do need laugh tracks to know when something is funny. 18/26

Watch: There is now a talk show hosted within Animal Crossing. 19/26

ICYMI: To socially distance at Passover—maybe next year—consider a DIY Haggadah, e.g., a Jerry Seinfeld-themed Seder. 20/26

When you're tired of using Zoom but still want to meet up online, try a virtual world instead. 21/26

Augmented-reality cut and paste will let you add real-world objects to documents. 22/26

Most ransomware needs live human hackers, but a new strain self-propagates, and has so far proven frighteningly effective. 23/26

The Stranglers' keyboardist, Dave Greenfield, who wrote the band's biggest hit, "Golden Brown," has died at 71 from COVID-19. 24/26

Loving these monochromatic, crosshatched shapes drawn in pen by Albert Chamillard. 25/26

The Fifty photo series is publishing a photo collection for a new US state every week this year. 26/26

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