What Writing a Pandemic Newsletter Showed Me About America
I shut myself in my Brooklyn apartment, binge-reading about virology and venturing out only for groceries and a brisk walk now and then. And what I read keeps making me…
The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine
A miracle cure must have sounded pretty good. On March 19, the president conducted a press conference, and it was really weird. This is where he started pitching hydroxychloroquine. “It’s…
The Vulnerable Can Wait. Vaccinate the Covid Super-Spreaders First
One of the first people to address the committee was Santa Claus. Or, more precisely, it was Ric Erwin, chairman of the board of the Fraternal Order of Real Bearded…