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Covid 19

Business Food Health

'If One Of Us Gets Sick, We All Get Sick'

The long struggle for workers’ rights at poultry plants is now more urgent than ever

Mya Frazier The Guardian Apr 2020 20min Permalink

Business Health Travel

Socially Distance This

Carnival Cruise executives knew they had a virus problem, but kept the party going.

Austin Carr, Chris Palmeri Bloomberg Businessweek Apr 2020 15min Permalink

Best Article Health

I’m an E.R. Doctor in New York. None of Us Will Ever Be the Same.

A Covid diary: This is what I saw as the pandemic engulfed our hospitals.

Helen Ouyang New York Times Magazine Apr 2020 45min Permalink

Food

'Everyone Is So Afraid'

How COVID-19 is changing the American restaurant industry.

Jordan Ritter Conn The Ringer Apr 2020 25min Permalink

Health

I Can’t Answer My Daughter's Questions About COVID-19

On parenting during a pandemic.

Kevin Koczwara Esquire Apr 2020 15min Permalink

Travel

The Last Train Trip Before Everything Changed

Solitude, slow travel, and change

Lauren Markham Lit Hub Apr 2020 10min Permalink

Health

Death Surrounds Her

Emily Rostkowski is an oncology nurse and cancer survivor herself. But now, like so many other healthcare workers, she spends her days in the center of the coronavirus storm.

Erika Hayasaki Marie Claire Apr 2020 15min Permalink

Health

I Know The Day We Got It

A week in the life of a family weathering the coronavirus.

Reyhan Harmanci The Cut Apr 2020 10min Permalink

Business

Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic

The grocer started communicating with Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.)

Dan Solomon, Paula Forbes Texas Monthly Mar 2020 20min Permalink

Science Health

How the Pandemic Will End

The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.

Ed Yong The Atlantic Mar 2020 20min Permalink

Best Article Health

What I Learned When My Husband Got Sick With Coronavirus

A dispatch from a caretaker.

Jessica Lustig New York Times Magazine Mar 2020 15min Permalink

History World Health

Anatomy of a Pandemic

Like major contagions throughout history, the new coronavirus causes fear as well as illness. The remedy for both, it turns out, is the same.

Kevin Patterson The Walrus Mar 2020 20min Permalink

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