Dr. Strange.

Think your job has gotten strange in the past month? Imagine being tasked with rescuing humanity from a pandemic. 1/25

See also: How Anthony Fauci became America’s doctor. 2/25

The UN and Bill Gates criticize President Trump’s decision to withdraw funding for the World Health Organization. 3/25

President Obama endorses Joe Biden for president. 4/25

The CDC and FEMA have created a plan to reopen America. 5/25

In Europe, lifting restrictions is an early test of whether democracies can restart their economies and restore basic freedoms. 6/25

From a patient in a mile-long line to a phone call days later, tracking a nasal swab’s journey through bottleneck after bottleneck. 7/25

Why did the world shut down for Covid-19 but not Ebola, SARS, or Swine Flu? Because this virus is basically a perfect storm. 8/25

India was already a dangerous place to be Muslim. Now islamophobia has been “transposed onto the coronavirus issue.” 9/25

In Indonesia, volunteers dressed as ghosts known as "pocong" try to scare people into social distancing. 10/25

In Italy, a woman was fined 400 euros for taking her turtle for a walk and breaking confinement rules. 11/25

In Florida, pro wrestling is deemed an “essential business.” 12/25

A remarkable photo-essay of migrants attempting to reach the United States through the Darién Gap. 13/25

Read more stories like this in our editors' longreads picks. 14/25

"Zumped," "FaceTumped," and "Housepumped" all refer to being dumped on video during the lockdown. 15/25

Related: Getting dumped over Zoom isn’t improved when the internet connection keeps dropping. (“We’re breaking up!”) 16/25

Sometimes fetishists like to be told what to do, sometimes not—like during a pandemic, when sex parties are threatened. 17/25

See also: Red carpet analysis in the time of coronavirus. 18/25

New York City photographers sell prints for $150 to benefit Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. 19/25

British bakers reintroduce a nutrient-dense whole wheat bread first produced in 1942. 20/25

Without restaurant garbage to rely on, rats resort to cannibalism, "rat battles," and infanticide. 21/25

Photographs of cities with bad air pollution, before and after lockdown. 22/25

"If you have binoculars that’s obviously really helpful." A starter kit for anybody birding in place. 23/25

From "the adversary air support marketplace," a profile of the man who owns the world's most advanced private air force. 24/25

A French defense-industry employee on the verge of retirement was given a ride—that he didn't want—in a fighter jet, then he self-ejected by accident. 24/25

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