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Good morning. It’s Friday. You made it. Are you a doctor on the front lines of the coronavirus? We’d love to hear from you: jacqueline.alemany@washpost.com. Have a safe weekend. Thanks for waking up with us.  The New England Patriots plane delivers N95 masks from Shenzhen, China to Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by […]

Stephen Colbert spoke with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the Capitol on Thursday’s Late Show, and he asked her why she isn’t sheltering at home. “We are really working constantly on to prepare for our next bill but also to make sure that the legislation that was passed and signed by the president on […]

Some highlights: Anthony Fauci: “I’ve never known him to get it wrong. He is really, really smart, and he’s a national treasure, as I think we’re all coming to understand.” Need for a review of crisis: “It shouldn’t be partisan and vicious, it ought to be factual and really help understand where we got it […]

The women detained at the for-profit jail in the small, rural town of Jena, Louisiana, hail from all corners of Latin America. Some are asylum-seekers who fled repressive regimes. Others are lawful U.S. permanent residents who were picked up by immigration authorities after serving time in prison. Some are mothers and even grandmothers.  Right now, […]

But easier said than done. Only five states have the ability to hold a statewide by-mail election, and it took them years to set it up and work out the kinks. The states considering it now have months, if that, which means they need to decide in the next few weeks whether to push for […]

The week ending on March 21 had the greatest explosion of new unemployment claims in American history, with 3.3 million people filing for benefits — surpassing the previous weekly record by a factor of nearly five. Now we have data for the week ending March 28, which more than doubled the prior week’s record. Given […]

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Illustrated | iStock April 3, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT Sign Up for Our free email newsletters If the sort of things that most of us are seeing on social media and in our favorite publications is any indication, life under lockdown or shelter-in-place or whatever we are now calling the unilateral suspension of civilization across roughly half […]

On Thursday morning, The New York Times published a map. Using anonymous cellphone data from millions of Americans, the map showed a county-by-county breakdown of “when average distance traveled first fell below two miles” since social distancing was advised to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The conclusion felt obvious: As one Times reporter […]

Stephen Colbert spoke with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the Capitol on Thursday’s Late Show, and he asked her why she isn’t sheltering at home. “We are really working constantly on to prepare for our next bill but also to make sure that the legislation that was passed and signed by the president on […]

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Thursday complained to Fox News’ Sean Hannity that President Donald Trump is not receiving enough credit for being “incredibly courageous” in his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Carson, who is a member of the federal coronavirus task force, cited Trump’s February decision to stop foreign nationals who have recently […]

Stephen Colbert said he is, unfortunately, getting used to taping his Late Show from home, but it is the very least he can do during the COVID-19 outbreak. Also unfortunately, Republican governors in 11 states still haven’t issued stay-at-home orders, “but some Republicans are coming around,” he said, pointing to Florida’s Ron DeSantis, persuaded to […]

These comments open the window to an interesting topic — whether the Trump administration could have done more to gain access to information from China during the crucial early weeks of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. There are two issues we will explore: What did President Trump and the Trump administration […]

Stephen Colbert said he is, unfortunately, getting used to taping his Late Show from home, but it is the very least he can do during the COVID-19 outbreak. Also unfortunately, Republican governors in 11 states still haven’t issued stay-at-home orders, “but some Republicans are coming around,” he said, pointing to Florida’s Ron DeSantis, persuaded to […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested on Thursday that public health experts were to blame for the government’s bungling of the coronavirus pandemic. In a diatribe on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” he claimed that these experts had put people out of work and questioned whether they should be in charge of making decisions about the response. […]

Stephen Colbert said he is, unfortunately, getting used to taping his Late Show from home, but it is the very least he can do during the COVID-19 outbreak. Also unfortunately, Republican governors in 11 states still haven’t issued stay-at-home orders, “but some Republicans are coming around,” he said, pointing to Florida’s Ron DeSantis, persuaded to […]

After being turned away from ports in South America, Holland America’s Zaandam cruise ship was allowed to dock at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Thursday afternoon. Nine people on board the ship have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. Holland America’s owner, Carnival Corp., said there are 45 passengers who are mildly sick, […]

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said he doesn’t know why the United States hasn’t instituted a nationwide stay-at-home order amid the spread of COVID-19, saying the country “really should be” doing so to protect American lives. “I don’t understand why that’s not happening,” Fauci, one of the leading scientific voices behind […]