The forest for the trees.
New York state now has more cases of the coronavirus than any other country in the world. 1/27
Boris Johnson has left intensive care, but remains under observation. 2/27
The US unemployment rate is currently 13%, the highest since the Great Depression. 3/27
A landlord trade organization says 69% of tenants were able to pay rent in full or in part this month, compared to 81% in March. 4/27
It's as if "the economy as a whole has fallen into some sudden black hole." 5/27
The White House wants to reopen much of the US next month, and Trump claims widespread testing isn't necessary to do so, contradicting health experts. 6/27
Medical intelligence on an outbreak in Wuhan with "cataclysmic" potential reached the White House in November. 7/27
"TRUMP: Let's get started. Lots of death. Hydroxychloroquine. Ratings. I am a doctor." Dave Eggers, "White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing." 8/27
Fauci: Antibody tests could be available within "a week or so" and coronavirus immunity certificates for Americans are "being discussed." 9/27
COVID-19 research papers are doubling every 14 days. 10/27
US labs say they're nowhere near running as many COVID-19 tests as they could, and blame a lack of infrastructure. 11/27
At least 5,400 healthcare workers around the US have now been infected by COVID-19. 12/27
See which regions' hospitals are most at risk of becoming overwhelmed if the COVID-19 outbreak grows in the US. 13/27
Neighboring states Kentucky and Tennessee have approached quarantine very differently—and it shows in the infection rates. 14/27
Prescriptions are surging, but pharmacists at Walgreens and CVS aren't being provided with adequate protective gear, and many can't afford to stay home if they're sick. 15/27
"I wore a mask and obviously washed my hands. Throughout the trip, I went to maybe 10 Walmarts." An interview with someone who lost his job due to the pandemic, and is now buying and reselling Nintendo Switches to make ends meet. 16/27
Instacart shoppers report that customers are now baiting them with hefty tips, then changing their tips to $0 after delivery. 17/27
"It's literally a life-or-death situation." Especially at risk from the current lack of grocery options: those with food allergies. 18/27
Jared Kushner is now so equated with skinny suits that it's time fashion declares the death of that silhouette. 19/27
Photos from lower Manhattan as COVID-19 hit, by Dina Litovsky. 20/27
Scientists warn against thinking of all trees as equally helpful in global cooling; it's about forests, and how trees cooperate. 21/27
Less air pollution—and lawn cutting—during quarantine could mean an abundance of wildflowers. 22/27
"Eventually, those square feet become acres of important habitat." How Jeff VanderMeer is rewilding his lawn. 23/27
To kill time during quarantine, a Portland, Ore., auto shop is holding a puppet-show contest. ("Extra points for pyrotechnics.") 24/27
Here is the 1963 modernist home that was torn down for Drake's 50,000-square-foot mega-mansion. 25/27
Slide photography from midcentury Manhattan, by Saul Leiter. 26/27
A four-and-a-half-hour presentation on whether the Beatles wrote their own songs. 27/27
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