Post Reports

Joseph Marks describes the challenges of preparing for massive mail-in voting. Juliet Eilperin breaks down why people aren’t getting tested, in places that have plenty of tests. Plus, Min Joo Kim explains how a new outbreak in South Korea has pushed its LGBTQ community into the spotlight. Read more:Two primaries underscore dueling paths to holding elections during coronavirus pandemicAs coronavirus testing expands, a new problem arises: Not enough people are getting testedTracing South Korea’s latest virus outbreak shoves LGBTQ community into unwelcome spotlightSubscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

Linah Mohammad reflects on the strict lockdown in Jordan. Ishaan Tharoor unpacks how the “Swedish model” for battling coronavirus is not quite what it seems. Plus, Amanda Coletta explains why expanding your household’s bubble could be a headache. Read more:Jordan uses its army to put its capital, Amman, on lockdown.Sweden’s coronavirus strategy is not what it seems.Canadian provinces allow locked-down households to pair up – threatening hurt feelings all around.Subscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

Phil Rucker reports on Trump’s dismissal of the State Department’s inspector general. George Washington University’s Kathryn Newcomer on why these positions matter in overseeing the executive branch. Plus, Faiz Siddiqui investigates the pandemic-time deliveries of alcoholic beverages.Read more:The State Department inspector general fired by President Trump was looking into allegations that a staffer for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was performing domestic errands and chores.According to California regulators, food delivery apps fueled alcohol sales to minors.Subscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

In 1923, an all-white mob burned down the small mill town of Rosewood, Fla., killing at least six people and driving out black residents. Decades later, the survivors won reparations from Florida legislators, including a scholarship that allowed any Rosewood descendants to attend any of the state’s public universities. Robert Samuels reports on a conversation around the complicated legacy and effects of those reparations. Read more:How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the Rosewood racial massacre.Photos of the Rosewood descendants that keep a once-forgotten history alive. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Today on Post Reports, Holly Bailey and Tony Romm report that as some states begin to reopen, people returning to work face life-or-death decisions. Aaron Davis explains how an ousted U.S. health official testifies that 2020 may be “the darkest winter in modern history.” And, author Mary Beard on what she’s reading during this pandemic — she recommends Rebecca Solnit’s “Recollections of My Nonexistence.”Read more:People returning to work in states that are beginning to ease social distancing measures are forced to weigh their financial well-being and the risk of contracting the coronavirus. Ousted U.S. health official Richard Bright is blowing the whistle on the Trump administration’s handling of the early weeks of the pandemic. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Today on Post Reports, investigative reporter Amy Brittain on the truth about Project Airbridge, a White House program set up to deliver badly needed personal protective equipment. Food reporter Laura Reiley explains the long road to recovery for restaurants. And Rachel Lerman says bartering is back in the time of the coronavirus. Read more:Trump promised that Project Airbridge would deliver essential supplies to medical workers, but a Post investigation reveals the emergency program is swathed in secrecy and exaggeration. As some states begin to open up, there’s concern that the dining experience will be forever changed by the pandemic. What would you trade for a roll of toilet paper? Bartering is back in the time of the coronavirus. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Matt Zapotosky reports on the Justice Department’s recent moves to undercut the Mueller investigation. Aaron Gregg on the small-business loans that are going to large companies instead. And Monica Hesse on the power and popularity of Purell.Read more:Why the Justice Department moved to erase Michael Flynn’s guilty plea in the Russia investigation.Are Small Business Administration loans — part of coronavirus relief efforts — actually getting to small businesses?Delving into the history and mystery of a coronavirus staple: hand sanitizer.Subscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

Cleve Wootson on why it took so long for the suspects to be charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s death. William Wan on the coronavirus’s toll on mental health. And Jacqueline Alemany on the young people left out of the virus relief efforts.Read more:It took 74 days for suspects to be charged in the death of a black jogger.The coronavirus pandemic is pushing America into a mental-health crisis.Young people are being left out of coronavirus economic relief efforts. That could be a big problem.Subscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

What does the pandemic sound like? Mostly, silence, according to critic Robin Givhan. Read more:What does a pandemic sound like? For many of us at home, it’s a heartbreaking silence.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

What being a working mom is like during a pandemic from Helena Andrews-Dyer. And how learning Bach could be an expression of grief from Philip Kennicott.Read more:This Mother’s Day, stories of women balancing careers and kids concede that thriving is out of reach. Surviving is enough in the time of the coronavirus.How one reporter found solace in Bach after losing his mother.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Advice for managing your money, from personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary. What happens when people are too scared to seek medical care, from Frances Stead Sellers and Jessica Contrera. And what we wear when we’re stuck at home, and what it says about us, from fashion critic Robin Givhan. Read more:Your money and the pandemic: We answer your most pressing personal finance questions on the economic fallout of covid-19.Patients with heart attacks, strokes and even appendicitis vanish from hospitals.Patients in pain, dentists in distress: In a pandemic, the problem with teeth.Our clothes tell our story. What happens when the narrative is just pajamas and sweats?Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Michael Scherer describes how candidates have rewritten their campaigns during the pandemic. Jessica Contrera asks how we weigh risk against necessity, longing and fear. And Emily Heil on the anxiety-filled hellscape that is the grocery store. Read more:Political candidates – and not just the presidential ones – are reinventing how they campaign in the age of the pandemic.As the country moves to reopen, Americans weigh risk against necessity, longing and fear. Grocery shopping used to be a mundane errand. Now, we’re all feeling the stress.Vote for Post Reports in the Webby Awards. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Emma Brown on which deaths count toward the covid-19 death toll. Jeff Stein reports on the $500 billion the Federal Reserve plans to lend big corporations with little restrictions. Plus, Reed Albergotti explores what happens when cannabis is deemed an essential service.Read more:U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of the pandemic, far more than previously known. The U.S. plans to lend $500 billion to large companies. It won’t require them to preserve jobs or limit executive pay.Weed is deemed ‘essential’ in California, but many pot businesses are on the brink of failureSubscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

How people are dealing with grief and loss during the pandemic. And Melinda Hunt, the director of Hart Island in New York explains the challenges of burying the city’s dead. Read more:The coronavirus is rewriting how we grieve. Unable to gather in person, people are finding new ways to mourn.An island in New York that has historically housed the city’s dead is being stretched by the coronavirus. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

In the pandemic times, sourdough bread is king. Post Reports producer Reena Flores goes on a journey to find out why, with King Arthur Flour co-chief executive Karen Colberg and ancient bread maker Seamus Blackley. Read more:People are baking bread like crazy, and now we’re running out of flour and yeast.Now is the ideal time to learn to make sourdough bread. Here’s how.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Geoff Edgers on how the Louis Armstrong Museum is finding a new life online during the coronavirus pandemic -- and, just a warning, this segment contains explicit language. From The Post’s podcast “All Told,” how one blues musician is changing his act under self isolation. And Reena Flores on a new kind of romantic comedy on Netflix.Read more:Jazz legend Louis Armstrong is being honored in a new way at a nonprofit museum that’s going digital during the pandemic.Blues in self isolation, with Facebook Live.Listen and subscribe to “All Told” for more stories from the pandemic. A new rom-com with platonic love in focus.If you love “Post Reports,” vote for us for a Webby Award!https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2020/podcasts/individual-episodes-mini-series-specials/news-politicsSubscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer 

Matt Viser on the allegations against the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. Rick Noack on how nations that had a robust response to the coronavirus pandemic are beginning to cautiously reopen.Read more:Nations around the world that were praised for their robust responses to the coronavirus pandemic are beginning to reopen. Allegations against the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.If you love Post Reports, vote for us for a Webby Award!https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2020/podcasts/individual-episodes-mini-series-specials/news-politicsSubscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

Leonard Bernstein on what we know (and still don’t) about the coronavirus. Laura Meckler explains the changes schools might have to make to reopen in the fall. And Anna Fifield on Kim Jong Un, missing in action.Read more:What you need to know about the coronavirus.Alternating schedules. Lunch in the classroom. Students in masks. No football. School districts will have to change things up if they want to reopen in the fall.Where is North Korea’s leader?Vote for Post Reports in the Webby Awards: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2020/podcasts/individual-episodes-mini-series-specials/news-politicsSubscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

Rosalind Helderman explains how the cruise industry carried the coronavirus around the globe. Greg Miller on the virus briefings Trump skipped. And, how young caregivers are impacted by social distancing, from Tara Bahrampour.Read more:Cruise ships kept sailing for weeks after the coronavirus was first detected, carrying the virus around the globe.President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited the coronavirus threat. He skipped them. Young caregivers are used to social isolation. Covid-19 is bringing added stress as it threatens resources they depend upon.Subscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

Two doctors on the mysterious blood-clotting complication killing coronavirus patients. Heather Long explains why the economy won’t just bounce back in a “V-shaped” recovery. Plus, Lindsey Sitz on why washing your hands a lot doesn’t mean you’re “so OCD.” Read more:Doctors say that a blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients.What is a W-shaped economic recovery? (Hint: It’s scary.)If you wash your hands a lot, it doesn’t mean you’re “so OCD.” Here’s what it’s really like to have it. If you want to learn more about OCD, there are helpful resources at iocdf.org.Subscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

Even as governors, mayors and the federal government urge or require Americans to wear masks to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the nation is divided about whether to comply.Read more:Will Americans wear masks to prevent coronavirus spread? Politics, history, race and crime factor into tough decisions.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Dan Lamothe explains how the Navy tried and failed to control a coronavirus outbreak -- and a crisis of confidence -- on the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Plus, child psychiatrist Matthew Biel on how to talk to kids about the global pandemic. Read more:How an outbreak on the USS Theodore Roosevelt became a defining moment for the U.S. military.Parents are the filter for how kids understand the pandemic. Tips on how to talk to them about the coronavirus.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Georgia will begin reopening businesses Friday, against the advice of experts and the White House. William Wan reports on what will happen next. For survivors of AIDS, an eerie deja vu, from reporter Jada Yuan. And, what Trump’s new immigration policy actually means, from Nick Miroff. Read more:States rushing to reopen are likely making a deadly error, coronavirus models and experts warn.They survived the HIV crisis. Now New York’s aging gay population is confronting another plague.Trump signs order pausing immigration for 60 days, with exceptions.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

On Earth Day, Sarah Kaplan asks how we can be better Earthlings. Seung Min Kim analyzes the new coronavirus response bill working its way through Congress. And Monica Hesse explains why we’re all having extra-weird dreams.Read more:What does it mean to be a good Earthling?The Senate has passed a $484 billion bill that would expand small-business aid and boost money for hospitals and testing. Will it be enough?You’re not the only one having weird dreams. Being trapped in our homes has made our subconsciouses run wild.Follow The Post’s live coronavirus coverage here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Juliet Eilperin explains the delays in widespread testing. Young people aren’t as vulnerable to the coronavirus, but the crisis is affirming their political frustrations, Hannah Knowles reports. And Michelle Lee on campaign fundraising in a pandemic.Read more:Why is it taking so long to ramp up coronavirus testing?Generation Z is fed up with the status quo. Coronavirus could affirm their beliefs.Joe Biden posted the biggest monthly fundraising haul of his campaign in March. Will the pandemic slow him down?Follow the Post’s live coronavirus coverage here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Laura Reiley explains the kinks in the food supply chain leaving grocery shelves bare. Grocery workers share their well-founded fears with Abha Bhattarai. Erin Patrick O’Connor hears from sanitation workers on the pandemic’s front line.Read more:The industry says we have enough food. Here’s why some grocery store shelves are empty anyway.The grocery workers on the front line of the pandemic never thought of their jobs as risky. Now, they’re scared to go to work.Sanitation workers are exposed to the coronavirus every day they go to work.Follow the Post’s live coronavirus coverage here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Over the past few weeks, many people have said they feel like figures in an Edward Hopper painting. On this bonus episode of Post Reports, art critic Sebastian Smee has a reminder from Renoir and Manet that the good times will return. Read more:We’re all alone. So let’s get lost in these paintings of parties.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Alaa Daghlas, a physician assistant at a Bronx hospital, grapples with her decision to return to work after recovering from covid-19. And Jon Gerberg reports from an ICU in Brooklyn scrambling to keep up with the influx of coronavirus patients.Read more:Alaa Daghlas prepares for her first day back on the front lines of a Bronx hospital after contracting covid-19. Inside a Brooklyn ICU, health-care workers risk their lives to care for coronavirus patients in critical condition. Follow the Post’s live coronavirus coverage here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Chris Mooney reports on the science of why some younger people are getting better, while others are dying of covid-19. Griff Witte reports on how parties and gatherings became clusters. And Annie Gowen on coronavirus deniers. Read more:The medical mystery of why some people under age 50 are dying of covid-19.The coronavirus had already reached the United States, but the parties went on. Experts say the inconsistent manner that social gatherings shut down across states gave the illness a head start.Some people deny the seriousness of the global pandemic as a plot to get President Trump.  Follow the Post’s live coronavirus coverage here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Martine Powers and Ishaan Tharoor explore the meaning of borders in a pandemic, and how coronavirus might change travel and migration in the future. And Mary Beth Sheridan walks us through public service announcements from around the world.Read more:Countries are slamming borders shut.  What will it look like when they reopen? From Japan to Uganda, global public service announcements are emerging to help fight coronavirus. Check out our episode from December about “sober curiosity,” which one listener said is helping him through social distancing.   Follow The Post’s live coronavirus coverage here.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

On today’s Post Reports, Heather Long on how opening up the economy will be less like flipping a switch and more like a slow rehabilitation. Drew Harwell on the privacy complications around Zoom. And author J. Courtney Sullivan on what she’s reading for comfort. Read more:The economy came to a grinding halt when the coronavirus hit. The recovery will likely be the opposite. More and more people are relying on Zoom video conferencing for work and staying connected with others, but that comes at a risk: Thousands of videos have been left viewable on the open web. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

The president talks about reopening the U.S. economy, but Lena Sun reports that experts say it would require widespread testing and contact tracing to do that safely. Long lines — and no relaxed restrictions — strain the nation’s food banks, Jenna Johnson reports. And, from Anna Fifield, how New Zealand didn’t just flatten the curve, but squashed it.Read more:A plan to defeat coronavirus finally emerges, but it’s not from the White House.Food banks sought relaxed federal rules to minimize contact. The USDA has stalled those requests, officials say.New Zealand isn’t just flattening the curve. It’s squashing it.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

For your weekend listening pleasure, senior editor Marc Fisher reads his story about the great toilet paper shortage, and what we can learn from it.Read more:Flushing out the true cause of the global toilet paper shortage amid coronavirus pandemicSubscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

Robert Samuels reports on the stark disparities in how covid-19 affects black Americans. Tracy Jan examines how wearing a face mask in public is different for black men. And Jordan-Marie Smith navigates the politics of hair during a pandemic.Read more:The coronavirus is ravaging black communities. One Milwaukee neighborhood is trying to fight back.As the nation is told to wear masks, how black Americans are weighing the risks of racial profiling.The underlying meaning behind the care of black men and women’s hair during a pandemic.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Damian Paletta looks ahead and outlines a bleak, new post-pandemic economic reality. Isaac Stanley-Becker reports on what happens when you can’t wash your hands in the midst of a public health crisis. And Emily Rauhala offers a glimpse into Wuhan before and after the lockdown lifts.Read more:With more than 17 million unemployment claims filed in the past four weeks, economists say the unemployment rate is now the worst since the Great Depression.We’ve all been told to wash our hands to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But what do you do when the water is shut off? Relief and sorrow as the lockdown in Wuhan is lifted.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Bernie Sanders ends his White House bid. Sean Sullivan discusses the impact of his campaign. There have been only a few anecdotal studies showing benefits of antimalarial drugs in coronavirus patients, yet the FDA has authorized the widespread use of the drugs. Chris Rowland reports. Phil Rucker on why Trump has been pushing the drug hydroxychloroquine, despite warnings from some public health officials about dangerous side effects and uncertain results. And Style editor Steve Kolowich remembers musician John Prine, who died Tuesday of coronavirus complications. Read more:Bernie Sanders drops out of the race.FDA authorizes widespread use of unproven drugs to treat coronavirus, saying possible benefit outweighs risk.‘What do you have to lose?’: Inside Trump’s embrace of a risky drug against coronavirus.John Prine’s lyrical one-liners could take your breath away.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Wisconsin’s primary is threatening to become a worst-case scenario for elections amid a pandemic. Amber Phillips reports on why it’s still so hard to put vote-by-mail systems in place. Undocumented workers are often ‘essential’ — but afraid of seeking health care, and won’t get government benefits if they’re laid off, says Tracy Jan. And Nantucket island has just three ventilators, and is preparing for the worst as summer residents flock to the island from cities, reports Caroline Kitchener. Read more:Wisconsin’s decision to hold its primary is threatening to become a worst-case scenario for elections amid a pandemic.Undocumented workers among those hit first — and worst — by the coronavirus shutdown.Nantucket has three ventilators. Year-round residents are asking summer residents to stay away, but people have continued to flock to the island as they flee cities like New York.Follow The Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic here. Instructions from the Mayor of Kauai, for how to make “MacGyver ice cream”Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Aaron Gregg on the realities of getting a small business loan under the stimulus plan. Nicole Dungca reports that the federal government lagged for months in helping local officials respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, Karin Bruilliard reports that the plight of tigers around the United States goes beyond what we saw in the Netflix documentary “Tiger King.”Read more:If you’re a small business, here’s how to get a loan under the $349 billion aid bill.While President Trump declared the coronavirus under control, local leaders faced confusion and chaos as cases piled up.How ‘Tiger King’ became a tale more about people than big cats.Follow The Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Older people can face serious health effects from being isolated — and yet, being isolated is the only thing that can keep them safe, Senior Producer Maggie Penman reports. Plus, Global Opinions writer Jason Rezaian on how he survived solitary confinement in Iran — and how you can survive social distancing, too. And, though we may be apart, a reminder that we’re not alone, from science reporter Sarah Kaplan.Read more:I survived solitary confinement. You can survive self-isolating.Human connection bolsters the immune system. That’s why it’s more important than ever to be kind.Follow The Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Inside a New York hospital on the front lines of the pandemic. And how health-care workers are forced to face their own mortality. Read more:Inside a major New York City hospital system battling coronavirusAs they rush to save lives, health-care workers are updating their own wills and funeral plansFollow The Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

How Europe is weathering the crisis, from the U.K. to Hungary. The federal government’s internal debate over whether to tell all Americans to cover their faces in public, from health reporter Lena Sun. And the linen company that’s making medical masks, from reporter Arelis R. Hernández.Read more:Europe is deeply in crisis, or preparing for the worst,Memos from the CDC to the White House lay out the rationale for possible widespread use of face coverings.Cruise ships canceled orders. Then hotels. Now, a linen company is making medical masks.Follow The Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

What coronavirus means for crowded prisons, from reporter Kimberly Kindy. The tension in a community that’s dealing with a deadly outbreak but reluctant to shut down its economy, from Cleve Wootson. And, how the virus is separating extended families, from Caitlin Gibson.Read more:Amid fears that the coronavirus will be particularly deadly in the crowded prisons and jails, counties and states are releasing thousands of inmates.A pro-Trump community in Florida, hit early by virus, sits at emotional nexus of national debate over reopening economy amid health crisisKids are coronavirus carriers. Their grandparents are their caretakers, and they’re vulnerable.Follow The Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

White House economics reporter Jeff Stein explains how corporations are benefiting from the stimulus package. And Hannah Dreier on why “sheltering in place” isn’t really an option for people who are homeless.Read more:What’s in the Senate’s $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package?For the homeless, coronavirus is a new menace in a perilous life.Follow The Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

School closures are a big deal for kids and parents, says education reporter Moriah Balingit. How the shift to online learning has exposed America’s deep digital divide from Tony Romm. And an audio diary of working from home with kids, from Alexis Diao.Read more:The unintended consequences of closing schools.The move to online learning is exposing Internet-access inequality among kids in the U.S.Online learning has a curve.Post Reports producer Alexis Diao keeps a diary of working from home with kids. Here are tips for working from home and keeping your sanity.Follow the Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Many Americans will receive a check during the pandemic –– but how much, and when? Heather Long explains the federal relief package. Emily Heil checks in with laid-off restaurant workers. And, Abha Bhattarai on those who can’t afford to stock up.Read more:Who’s set to receive a check from the government during the pandemic? Find out here.Laid-off restaurant industry workers are trying to find a way to live during this pandemic.Imagine a 69-year-old woman unable to buy the groceries she needs during the outbreak. She’s not alone.Follow the Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic here. Do you qualify for a stimulus check? Find out with this calculator.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Cruise ships continued to sail as the coronavirus spread. Beth Reinhard explains why. Michael Scherer reports on the awkwardness of campaigning during a pandemic. And Simon Denyer on how Japan is handling covid-19.Read more: Cruises didn’t stop operations until it was too late. Health experts are asking why.How do you campaign for president during a pandemic?Japan is handling the coronavirus in its own way. Here’s what that looks like.Follow the Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Brady Dennis reports on the growing number of cases of the novel coronavirus in the United States. Sarah Kaplan explains the science of why this virus is so dangerous. And, Rick Maese on the Tokyo Olympics, now postponed until 2021. Read more:‘It’s going to get bad’: As outbreak surges, nation faces tough start to a grim week.The science behind what makes this coronavirus so sneaky, deadly and difficult to defeat.The 2020 Olympics will be postponed. We talked to athletes about how they’re feeling.Follow the Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Shane Harris on what U.S. officials knew about the global threat of the novel coronavirus, and when they knew it. Chris Mooney on why the coronavirus is killing more men. And, Dan Zak reflects on our shifting sense of time and space during the pandemic.Read more:U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic. Why was the government so slow to respond?The coronavirus is killing far more men than women. Epidemiologists are trying to figure out why.Coronavirus is a test that no one knows how to pass.Follow the Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus here.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

William Wan on how the novel coronavirus will radically alter the United States. Maura Judkis on social distancing with roommates. Plus, Julie Zauzmer’s dispatch from churches deciding what’s more important: fellowship and prayer, or public health?Read more:Here’s what may lie ahead based on math models, hospital projections and past pandemicsWhose bedroom becomes the infirmary? Group-house living just got a whole lot trickier.Without guidance from the top, Americans have been left to figure out their own coronavirus solutions - including whether or not to hold church services.Follow the Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus here.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Phil Rucker on how Republicans are throwing out the political playbook by supporting a massive bailout for the economy. Chris Rowland on the search for a treatment for the coronavirus. And Min Joo Kim reports on how South Korea got testing right.Read more:Trump’s $1 trillion stimulus package composed of bailouts and personal checks is gaining support from Republicans, a tactic the party has traditionally opposed.As scientists race to find a treatment for the novel coronavirus, they’re looking at experimental drugs from past outbreaks.How South Korea got testing right. Follow the Post’s live coverage of the coronavirus here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer