What others are writing about COVID-19
After Fauci urged caution in reopening the economy, Fox News turned to Dr. Phil for a second opinion
"We don't shut the country down for that," Dr. Phil McGraw said referring to accidental deaths such as car crashes and pool drownings. "Yet we are doing it for this and the fallout is going to last for years because people's lives are being destroyed." The segment with Laura Ingraham followed Dr. Anthony Fauci's explanation of the White House's new guidelines on reopening the economy. Read the story from The Washington Post.
We're not overreacting to the coronavirus
Some people are starting to wonder if the cure of social distancing and economic shutdown is worse than the coronavirus disease. But public health experts say we will know we did the right thing if in the end we feel like we overreacted. Vox explains the paradox of public health and why the right action looks like overreaction.
Here are the drugs that could treat coronavirus. But don't expect a magic bullet.
Researchers, pharmaceutical companies and governments are working at a frenzied pace to test potential drugs to combat the coronavirus. The Washington Post looks at the top contenders right now.
29 Dead at One Nursing Home From the Virus. Or More. No One Will Say.
At a nursing home in Queens, families say they are not getting straight answers about how bad the outbreak is. The New York Times investigates and looks into why nursing homes have been so hard hit by COVID-19.
Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social distancing
People are beginning to talk about what it's going to take to reopen the economy. Vox's Ezra Klein interviews Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner under President Donald Trump and fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, about his plan. They discuss the challenges to getting out of the lockdown and what the world looks like until a vaccine is discovered. Listen to the podcast. Klein also looks at four different plans in "I've read the plans to reopen the economy. They're scary."