Month: March 2020

Taking one’s temperature to look for signs of fever is not as easy as it sounds. For one reporter, the first challenge was finding a thermometer. View original article Contributor:

The Chinese region, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in indoctrination camps, has been an information void. Uighurs fear a lockdown in the region drove many to hunger. View original article Contributor:

The automaker and its partner, Ventec, had spent more than a week figuring out how to make thousands of the lifesaving devices when the White House said G.M. was “wasting time.” View original article Contributor:

I’ve had two recent cycling accidents in which I had the right of way but inattentive drivers cut me off. View original article Contributor:

President Trump extended social distancing guidelines to April 30 as cases in the U.S. topped 140,000. The doctors advising him said that without any restrictions on movement more than 1 million Americans could die. View original article Contributor:

A group of residents from an island town in Maine cut down a tree and dragged it into the middle of a road. View original article Contributor:

In the absence of a detailed coronavirus plan, experts are drafting proposals for a national strategy View original article Contributor: Laurie McGinley

Artist David Wetzl’s condition was frontotemporal dementia. Wife Diana Daniels found that sympathy and health-care services were not always extended to them. View original article Contributor: Erika Mailman

Officials have teamed up with medical supply companies to speed the arrival of masks, gloves, gowns and other goods. View original article Contributor: