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By David Leonhardt
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Most countries with severe coronavirus outbreaks have fallen well since their peak of new cases every day. It happened in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Turkey and, if official figures are known, in China.
But that didn’t happen in America. Here, the number of new cases shown and deaths has decreased in the last few weeks alone. Every day since April 2, there have been at least 22,000 new instances and 1,000 deaths.
Now, with many states preparing to reopen their economies, the death toll is expected to rise again, according to a forecast consistent with the Trump administration received through the Times. He predicted about 3,000 deaths consistent with June 1.
Why hasn’t the United States reduced its workload as much as much at most in other countries?
The answer is not entirely clear, given the complexity of the virus. But the prime suspect, according to many experts, is the asymmetrical nature of the American reaction, such as lack of evidence and the combined technique for social estrangement.
“The challenge with the American reaction is that it’s very random,” Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told me.
One way to look at the trend is to look at the U.S. workload. Outdoors in the New York metropolitan area. New York has been more affected than any other city in the world, thanks to its huge number of foreign visitors, maximum population density and a slow initial reaction from its political leaders.
But since then New York has embarked on a rigorous social estrangement, and its workload trend resembles that of a European country: up and then down.
The story is another one in the rest of the country. Outside the New York area, the number of cases has still peaked:
In other publications: I discovered these two articles to perceive the total situation: “Three Potential Futures for Covid-19”, through Sharon Begley of Stat; and “Why the coronavirus is so confusing,” through Ed Yong of The Atlantic.
Numerous antibody tests, used to determine whether others have been exposed to coronavirus, have yielded unreliable results. In response, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Monday that it is giving corporations to sell the tests for 10 days to make their products work or bring them off the market.
An Amazon executive left his senior position after the company fired employees who had raised considerations about protecting employees during the pandemic. “Continuing to be vice president of Amazon would have meant, in fact, approving the moves I despised,” executive Tim Bray wrote in a blog post. “Then I quit.
Costco has limited sales of new meat, in reaction to the possible shortage of meat resulting from viral outbreaks among slaughterhouse workers. Each visitor can buy only 3 new beef, red meat or poultry products.
Kroger, the country’s largest supermarket chain, has also limited its meat purchases in some stores.
In Alabama, a woman called the police because teenagers were making fun of a bowling alley. In Utah, the government closed tattoo parlors and salons after receiving more than 500 complaints. And in Wisconsin, a doctor suspended from his task after attending a crowded rally without a mask.
Call it a delator virus: a growing number of frustrated Americans are challenging the government over others who they say are violating social estrangement patterns.
Health workers around the world continue to threaten their lives to treat others affected by coronavirus. The Times has compiled stories from dozens of nurses, doctors and E.M.T. – what helps keep them awake at night and what motivates them to keep fighting.
More than a dozen countries eased restrictions on viruses on Monday, Italy, which has been strictly closed since early March.
In New York, 15 young men were hospitalized for a mysterious illness that would possibly be similar to Covid-19.
A federal ruling ruling has opened the door to an investigation into whether Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell improperly prompted dictators to withdraw.
At Opinion, a behavioral economist offers recommendations for overcoming quarantine fatigue.
The day the Pulitzer Prizes are awarded is the closest thing to an annual birthday party in the New York Times.
Shortly before 3 p.m., gather in the main newsroom, an open area that spans 3 floors, and wait for the official announcement of the awards through Columbia University. The newspaper’s editor-in-chief, winners and editors take turns commenting.
This year, of course, this collection was carried out. Instead, we tune in to a live Google stream to celebrate the 3 Times winners, 3 additional finalists and other journalism activities the following year. Our winners were:
Nikole Hannah-Jones, for his “radical, deeply informed essay” in Project 1619, on slavery.
Brian Rosenthal, for his communication about the taxi in New York and his predatory loans that ruined the lives of the drivers.
A team of foreign journalists, covering Russia Vladimir Putin.
The New Yorker two awards this year, and The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica Public Service Award for their joint research into sexual violence in Alaska.
A special appointment went to Ida B. Wells, the investigative journalist who was born into slavery and denounced the horrors of lynchings. On Twitter, Hannah-Jones, who uses Ida Bae Wells as an account call, exclaimed exultantly: “Ida B. Wells and I won the Pulitzer the same day. How can we not not let the ancestors intervene at that time?
To be more informed: The Times’ Lion Conception discusses the winning books here, and the full list of awards is here. Photographer José R. López went through the stages of the variety process.
Do yourself a favor and buy a jar of crisp chili, the superstar Chinese seasoning that our editor Sam Sifton calls “magic” on almost every one of the savory dishes, adding baked tofu and green beans shown above.
If you want a little more conviction, Eater reports that many closed restaurants sell their own brands of crisp chili and chilli oil. Try those Xi’an Famous Foods packages.
America’s first major store. In bankruptcy for the pandemic, it was not a chain of declining branches. It was J. Crew, a well-known call recently defended through Michelle Obama.
At its height, the company’s creations represented “the myths of American heritage, bootstrap and independence,” writes Vanessa Friedman of The Times. But the loss of the logo’s identity, and the inability to be applied in a conversion retail landscape, have contributed to its decline.
Omen: in 2017, our pop critic Jon Caramanica asked, “What happened to J. Crew?”
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Stephen King enthusiasts have told him they feel they live in one of his novels.
He has written more than 70 books, so we have developed a consultant for beginners for each and every mood, from “I am a scared cat” to “I need natural suspense”. If you prefer your fears to be broadcast on screen, our TV critic Mike Hale has highlighted seven screens that go beyond “Black Mirror”.
A non-public recommendation: “The Stand,” King’s post-apocalyptic play. I just bought a new one this week.
He’s won more games than any other N.F.L. Head coach. Their bands have lost records in just two of their 33 seasons. And he remains the fashion-era coach having overseen an undefeation season, through the 1972-73 Miami Dolphins.
Don Shula died Monday at the age of 90.
Celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg promote 2020 with some tips.
A principal at one of Alabama’s top schools expressed his emotions about the pandemic through songs.
After President Trump himself to Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Kimmel said, “For these of it, you can’t say you’re treated worse than Lincoln if you’re still alive.”
Here are today’s mini-crosswords and a clue: love, in Italian (five letters). Or my favorite Times game: Spelling Bee.
You can all our puzzles here.
Thanks for spending the morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. – David
PS For the first time in 169 years of publication, the word “vitaparcours”, a fitness course interspersed with training stations, gave the impression in the Times, seen via the Twitter bot @nyt_first_said.
You can see the front page of today’s paper here, and the front page of 50 years ago today, the murder of student protesters in Kent State, here.
Today’s episode of “Daily” explains how the pandemic has inequalities among college students.
Lauren Leatherby, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Sanam Yar, Tom Wright-Piersanti and Adam Pasick contributed to The Morning. You can enroll in the team at [email protected].
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