Stranger Than Fiction

A brief daily note of things you might find interesting or useful

July 01, 2020

Yesterday, my colleagues at WSJ launched “Noted.” A news and culture magazine. I hope you’ll check it out. Learn more about it here. 

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  • Hong Kong Police Make First Security-Law Arrest “Police made their first arrest under China’s new national-security law for Hong Kong, apprehending a man for waving an independence flag, as thousands of protesters took to the streets to defy Beijing’s move to crush dissent in the city.” - WSJ

  • As U.S. Coronavirus Cases Climb, States Chart Their Own Course “The global coronavirus death toll topped 510,000 and the number of U.S. cases continued to climb, as governors took divergent approaches to containing the spread in their states.” - WSJ

  • ICU Doctors Still Have Differing Opinions On How to Treat COVID-19 “Several months into the coronavirus pandemic, hospital physicians are split on whether long-established treatment protocols for patients in respiratory distress are helping or harming patients with Covid-19.” - WSJ

  • A Reverse-Square-Root Recovery “After recovering rapidly from mid-April through mid-June the economy has shown signs of sputtering in the past two weeks, just as the coronavirus has resurged in parts of the U.S.” - WSJ

  • Trump stokes a culture war as his Twitter feed focuses on vandalism “The president — who has shown less public interest in police reform, the coronavirus and even the economic recovery in recent weeks — has been highlighting vandalism by protesters and the well-being of targeted statues.” - WaPo

  • The United States Department of Health Human Services (HHS) has bought almost all the supply for the next three months of remdesivir “An experimental drug made by Gilead Sciences which showed encouraging preliminary results following a trial on a small group of very sick patients with COVID-19.” - The Guardian

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THE COMMENT

“The road back will be even harder now than it was in March. The United States is experiencing multiple outbreaks from California to Florida that will seed more infections in the weeks and months ahead. The hope that summer’s warm weather would help, that the sacrifices made in March and April would be sufficient, that a miracle cure would arrive — all have been dashed. The United States faces a crisis unseen in recent generations, and if it deepens, the pain won’t be only in illness and death but also in education and economics.” - Washington Post Editorial Board

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