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COVID-19 (Disease)

False Dawn

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Khadijah Queen

The constant surprise of COVID-19

This Is Not a Test

by Barrett Swanson,

Why America fails to prevent disasters

The Last Picture Show

The national box-office report for the weekend of April 17–19, reflecting all self-submitted earnings by theaters in the United States, where government orders aimed at halting the spread of the…

States of Care

From a report published in April by the Kaiser Family Foundation, detailing the amount of money each state received per COVID-19 case in the first round of grant funding under…

Rally of the Dolls

Translated by Syazween Zainal Ariffin,

From guidelines for women presented in a series of infographics issued by the Malaysian government in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Translated from the Malay. Create a temporary workstation…

Fever Dreams

by Erin Gravley, Grace Gravley,

From accounts of dreams reported during the novel coronavirus pandemic, collected in March and April by Erin Gravley and Grace Gravley on their “i dream of covid” website. I was…

Soul Proprietor

From an interview with Tony Spell conducted in April by Victor Blackwell, an anchor for CNN. Spell, the pastor of Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had been cited…

Things to Come

by Kevin Baker,

On March 30, during one of the daily briefings on the COVID-19 outbreak that had so captured the hearts and minds of New Yorkers, Governor Andrew Cuomo uttered a sentence…

States of Emergency

by Christopher Beha,

When President Trump announced several months ago that the spread of the novel coronavirus constituted a national emergency, he invoked—whether he knew it or not—the National Emergencies Act, the 1976…

Essential Business

by Rozina Ali,

Keeping the Bronx fed in the midst of a pandemic

Tests of Time