This Week’s Issue: What the Coronavirus Crisis Reveals About American Medicine

Plus: twenty-four hours at the epicenter of the pandemic, revisiting Kent State, and the Netflix series “#blackAF.” View in browser | Update your preferences Coronavirus Chronicles What the Coronavirus Crisis Reveals About American Medicine Medicine is a system for delivering care and support; it’s also a system of information, quality control, and lab science. All need fixing. By Siddhartha Mukherjee Annals of Epidemiology Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not The initial outbreaks emerged at roughly the same time. But the danger was communicated very differently. By Charles Duhigg Portfolio A City Nurse These days, the days of COVID-19, nurses at Lenox Hill Hospital inhabit a twilight world that is celebrated by their fellow New Yorkers but only faintly seen. Our Local Correspondents April 15, 2020: A Coronavirus Chronicle On the day estimated to be the peak of the pandemic, more than forty New Yorker writers and photographers fanned out across New York City—some in the real world, some virtually—to present a kaleidoscopic portrait of how the city and its residents are coping with an unthinkable reality. By The New Yorker A Critic at Large Kent State and the War That Never Ended The deadly episode stood for a bitterly divided era. Did we ever leave it? By Jill Lepore Books The Man Who Thought Too Fast Frank Ramsey—a philosopher, economist, and mathematician—was one of the greatest minds of the last century. Have we caught up with him yet? By Anthony Gottlieb On Television More Money More Problems in Kenya Barris’s “#blackAF” In the Netflix series, a TV-show creator worries that, in moving on up, he’s become a fraud. By Doreen St. Félix Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Lockdown Recommendations: Month 38 You’ve seen “Downton Abbey” three times. For your next posh Brit fix, try this nativity play from an exclusive London primary school, filmed by a proud front-row parent. By Nick Hornby Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine. This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.