Germany vs. The Virus
While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?
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While Covid-19 deaths in the United States skyrocket, Germans have managed to largely contain the damage. What do we need to learn?
Annalisa Quinn Boston Globe Magazine Nov 2020 20min Permalink
Over three weeks, COVID-19 delivered “cheap shots.” It took hostages. And it left the Malinowski family with with pain, loss and grief.
JENNIFER PIGNOLET Akron Beacon Journal Dec 2020 15min Permalink
No house is private. It may be purchased, and thus legally private property, but it doesn’t stand alone. Through its extending wires, pipes, inputs and outputs, the house (with few off-grid exceptions) is tied up in the cyborg systems of the city and the supply chains and logistical inputs that extend around the globe.
Kelly Pendergrast Real Life Aug 2020 15min Permalink
A young lover grapples with arrangements and quarantine.
Claire Rudy Foster Split Lip Magazine Nov 2020 15min Permalink
As the country heads into a dangerous new phase of the pandemic, the government’s management of the P.P.E. crisis has left the private sector still straining to meet anticipated demand.
Doug Bock Clark New York Times Magazine Nov 2020 25min Permalink
A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Oct 2020 Permalink
The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body’s reaction to vaccines.
Brendan Borrell The Atlantic Oct 2020 25min Permalink
An interview with the playwright Jeremy O. Harris.
Doreen St. Félix Ssense Oct 2020 15min Permalink
Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.
Ed Yong The Atlantic Aug 2020 15min Permalink
Watching Florida government on the state and local level is like watching two parents bring an alcoholic home after he got kicked out of rehab and deciding that the best course of action is leaving him with $5,000 in an apartment up the street from a dive bar and then going to Cancun for the week. It was on the calendar already, there wasn’t any choice, he looked very healthy at the time!
Jeb Lund Welcome To Hell World Jul 2020 15min Permalink
How a pandemic unfolds when you’re a Wall Street billionaire.
Max Abelson Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2020 15min Permalink
‘Florida and Ohio, man,’ the barista at the local café said to my husband, when he asked about the tourist trade. ‘People here at least acknowledge that it’s real. But people from Florida and Ohio don’t even seem to think it’s happening.’ Having lived in both places, I believe him: I have long had a theory that the surrealism that has overtaken the political landscape in America can be traced back to the poisoned ground of Ohio Facebook.
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books Jul 2020 15min Permalink
After years of outsourcing, many essential staff work for the NHS without receiving its benefits. In one London hospital, the fight is on for a better deal.
Sophie Elmhirst Guardian Jun 2020 25min Permalink
To speak of the human as such, as the modernists did, is like taking a piece of the wild, putting it into a petri dish, adding bleach and antibiotics until more than half of what’s in there is dead and then celebrating the barely-living remains as “the human.” Provocatively put, the human is a sterile abstraction, a harmony of illusions.
Tobias Rees Noema Jun 2020 Permalink
What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?
Kyle Chayka New Yorker Jun 2020 20min Permalink
Eighteen hours inside one COVID ward, observing what it takes to care for the sickest patients.
Lauren Caruba San Antonio Express-News Jun 2020 20min Permalink
Six months of life and death in America.
Betsy Morais, Alexandria Neason Columbia Journalism Review Jun 2020 25min Permalink
The global scramble for this vital item has exposed the harsh realities of international politics and the limits of the free market.
Samanth Subramanian Guardian Apr 2020 25min Permalink
Health-care workers have been on the job throughout the pandemic. What can they teach us about the safest way to lift a lockdown?
Atul Gawande New Yorker May 2020 20min Permalink
The passengers of the Diamond Princess came for indulgence, relaxation and bottomless buffets. Then they found themselves trapped on a ship infected with a deadly virus.
Joshua Hunt 1843 Apr 2020 20min Permalink
The first epicenter is coming back to life, but not as anyone knew it.