Keeping the Coronavirus from Infecting Health-Care Workers

Plus: The risks of building too many bio labs, an interview with Barbara Ehrenreich, and putting environmental stipulations on corporate bailouts. View in browser | Update your preferences News Desk Keeping the Coronavirus from Infecting Health-Care Workers What Singapore’s and Hong Kong’s success is teaching us about the pandemic. By Atul Gawande Dispatch Seattle’s Fight to Survive the Spread of the Coronavirus As Washington State enforces measures to slow the virus’s spread, the toll in Seattle’s service industry is clear, with boarded-up bars and restaurants and a surge in unemployment claims. By James Ross Gardner Q. & A. Building a Better Strategy for Fighting Pandemics “If we had got on top of this thing two months ago, America would look very, very different” right now, Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said. By Isaac Chotiner The New Yorker Interview Barbara Ehrenreich Is Not an Optimist, but She Has Hope A conversation with the author and activist about class, reporting, the coronavirus, and socialism. By Jia Tolentino Elements The Risks of Building Too Many Bio Labs Alarmed by new pathogens, we’re building more labs to study them. Can we do so without raising the likelihood of a catastrophic breach? By Elisabeth Eaves Daily Comment If We’re Bailing Out Corporations, They Should Bail Out the Planet As companies pursue government assistance to endure an economic slump, Democrats have the power to make any bailout depend on promises to meet the targets set in the Paris climate accord. By Bill McKibben Culture Desk The Retreating Horizon of Time in Quarantine In the current moment of self-isolation, the hoary ethic of temporal improvement seems once again relevant. By Dan Chiasson PAID POST “A triumphant end to a spellbinding story.” —NPR HILARY MANTEL returns with the triumphant conclusion of the trilogy that began with Wolf Hall and continued in Bring Up the Bodies. Critics call THE MIRROR & THE LIGHT “a masterpiece…. Every bit as thrilling, propulsive, darkly comic and stupendously intelligent as its predecessors.” —The Guardian Culture The Front Row Watch the Films of Éric Rohmer on His Centenary Many of the French director’s best works, combining his signature mix of romantic confusion and intellectual pith, are now available for streaming. By Richard Brody Humor and More Daily Shouts ESPN’s Updated Programming Schedule SportsCenter: Is pretty much every sport still cancelled? Yes! We talk about how much that sucks. By Eddie Small Puzzles and Games Dept. The Weekend Crossword Rapper with the line “real Gs move in silence like lasagna”: eight letters. By Natan Last Sign up for more newsletters from The New Yorker. Visit The New Yorker shop. Question about your subscription? Contact Customer Care. New Yorker digital subscribers get unlimited access to everything on newyorker.com. Log in to your account here. We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please send your thoughts and suggestions to TNYinbox@newyorker.com. This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, NewYorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.