Olympic Games organizers meet via teleconference today to discuss the virus’s impact on the 2020 Tokyo Games. How to play tennis in the time of cholera. Norway’s leader holds a press conference just for children to reassure them. Also: A nice example of a woman calmly talking her
There are now more reported cases of the coronavirus outside China than in, for the first time since the outbreak began in December. Los Angeles and New York shutter entertainment venues and bars and limit restaurants to take-out and delivery. The US central bank said it is targeting a
The House passes a coronavirus economic relief package that includes paid sick leave, unemployment insurance, free testing, and money for food stamps. As to what’s next in the Senate: More legislating. Covid-19 resources: statistics updated live; envelope calculations by a virus expert; Johns Hopkins situation reports; some excellent
“No one alive has ever experienced what the next two months will be like around the world, but here we are.” In South Korea, the number of new cases is less than the number of patients who recovered. Italy now has over 10,000 cases of the coronavirus, too many
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. Congress's in-house doctor tells Capitol Hill staffers that he expects 70-150 million people in the US to
Biden closes in on the Democratic nomination with primary wins in Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi and Idaho. Coronavirus cases pass 115,000 worldwide, including at least 1,000 in the US. "In most cases, symptoms are mild, and young people are at very low risk." Reasons to be reassured
Last week Trump told aides he's afraid journalists will try to purposefully contract coronavirus to give it to him on Air Force One. “None of us want to be Chicken Little, but there is too much consistent data to not begin to rattle the cage pretty loudly.” Life
China’s cases of Covid-19 are finally declining, which suggests the virus may have peaked there (for now). An editor at CNBC Business News suggests giving every American the coronavirus—meaning about 11 million deaths—to calm the markets. What the fight against Ebola can teach us about beating
Donald Trump has a plan for nothing. So why did voters reject the candidate who has a plan for everything? Martina Navratilova: Warren had a plan for everything with one major thing missing—the “right” sex. “I was told when I first got into this, there are two lanes,” Warren
In the biggest day of voting in the primary season, Joe Biden posts victories in nine states, maybe 10, in a rout that has no comparison in the history of party primaries. Mike Bloomberg, who spent $500 million in ads, only won in American Samoa. Alexandra Petri: “I just remembered
