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David Remnick talks with doctors, journalists, essential workers, and a bioethicist to understand the scope of the pandemic’s damage. (episode)
At an emergency room in Oregon, a doctor prepares for an onslaught of COVID-19 patients—and wrestles with her fear of infection.
Elder-care facilities around the country have banned visitors to protect their patients. Loved ones are stranded on the outside during a critical and uncertain time.
An expert in the ethics of medical rationing explains the history of triage, and what we owe to those we can’t save.
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to be historically unprecedented. What would it take to get markets back on track?
Countless Americans are now working from home. But for essential workers, waiting it out at home is not an option.