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Pandemic

World Health

On a Bender in the Grecian Isle Where Himbos Reign Supreme

Partying in Kavos during the pandemic.

Ben Munster MEL Magazine Oct 2020 Permalink

Health

Pregnant During the Pandemic: Three Stories

At work and at home, pregnancy alters the COVID experience.

Lauren Quinn Hazlitt Sep 2020 20min Permalink

Business Politics

The Democracy Factory

For decades, the vote-by-mail business was a sleepy industry that stayed out of the spotlight. Then came 2020.

Jesse Barron California Sunday Sep 2020 20min Permalink

Politics

How QAnon Conspiracy Theories Spread In My Colorado Hometown

During the pandemic, people from the author’s hometown got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.

Aída Chávez The Intercept Sep 2020 15min Permalink

Health

Long-Haulers Are Redefining COVID-19

Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.

Ed Yong The Atlantic Aug 2020 15min Permalink

Business

Out of Work

The coronavirus shutdown through the eyes of the recently unemployed.

California Sunday Jul 2020 Permalink

Facing the Wind

Trying to parent my Black teenagers through protest and pandemic.

Carvell Wallace New York Times Magazine Jun 2020 30min Permalink

Health

We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics

Why didn’t we?

Evan Ratliff Wired Jun 2020 30min Permalink

History Politics

I Don't Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore

Our economy is built on Americans of all class levels buying things. What happens when the ability—and desire—to do so goes away?

Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed May 2020 25min Permalink

Health

Inside the Nightmare Voyage of the Diamond Princess

At the start of the coronavirus outbreak, one ill-fated cruise ship became a symbol for the panic and confusion that would soon engulf the globe. What two harrowing weeks trapped aboard the ocean liner felt like—for unsuspecting tourists, for frightened crew members, and for the captain himself.

Doug Bock Clark GQ Apr 2020 35min Permalink

Food

My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?

The chef/writer behind New York City’s Prune revises her original dreams for the restaurant in the wake of closing because of COVID.

Gabrielle Hamilton New York Times Magazine Apr 2020 30min Permalink

Business World

The Crash of the $8.5 Billion Global Flower Trade

From Kenya to Amsterdam to New Jersey, an industry collapses in a matter of weeks.

Zeke Faux, David Herbling, Ruben Munsterman Bloomberg Businessweek Apr 2020 10min Permalink

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

Health

Our Pandemic Summer

The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself.

Ed Yong The Atlanic Apr 2020 30min Permalink

Travel

The Last Train Trip Before Everything Changed

Solitude, slow travel, and change

Lauren Markham Lit Hub Apr 2020 10min 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

Health

How the Coronavirus Could Take Over Your Body

Before you ever feel it.

Jeff Wise New York Mar 2020 25min Permalink

History Health

Life in Italian Lockdown After a Tragic Coronavirus Denial

It wasn’t until death rates began to soar that society began to take the outbreak seriously enough.

Vernon Silver Bloomberg Businessweek 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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