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07 May 2020 • The Washington Post

Your money and the pandemic

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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.

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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?

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06 May 2020 • The Washington Post

A pandemic playbook for political campaigns

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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.

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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.

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05 May 2020 • The Washington Post

The deaths that haven’t been counted

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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.

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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 failure

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04 May 2020 • The Washington Post

The changing face of grief

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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.

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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.

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02 May 2020 • The Washington Post

The rise of sourdough bread baking

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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.

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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.

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01 May 2020 • The Washington Post

Two thousand hours of Louis Armstrong

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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. A...

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30 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

What is Tara Reade accusing Joe Biden of?

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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.

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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.

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29 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

What we know — and still don’t — about the coronavirus

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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.

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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?

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28 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

The pandemic at sea

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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.

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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.

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27 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

The mysterious clotting in covid-19 patients

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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.”

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.

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25 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

The history of American antipathy toward masks

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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.

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Will Americans wear masks to prevent coronavirus spread? Politics, history, race and crime factor into tough decisions.

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24 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

A coronavirus crisis in the Navy

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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.

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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.

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23 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

Why reopening states is a ‘deadly mistake’

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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.

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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.

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22 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

Can we all be better Earthlings?

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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.

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.

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21 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

What’s slowing down coronavirus testing

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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.

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?

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20 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

Why shelves are empty at the grocery store

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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.

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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.

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18 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

Finding solace in paintings of parties

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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.

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We’re all alone. So let’s get lost in these paintings of parties.

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17 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

Life for a medical worker in a pandemic

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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.

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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.

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16 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

The coronavirus is killing Americans under age 50

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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.

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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.

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15 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

How coronavirus will reshape the world’s borders

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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.

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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.

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14 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

The economy in limbo

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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.

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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.

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13 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

How do we reopen the country safely?

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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.

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.

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11 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

The great toilet paper shortage of 2020

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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.

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10 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

Life as a black American in a pandemic

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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.

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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.

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09 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

When you can’t wash your hands in a pandemic

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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.

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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.

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08 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

The risks of unproven drugs for coronavirus

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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...

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07 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

Voting in a pandemic

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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 ...

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06 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

It’s proving really hard to give away $350 billion

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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.”

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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.

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03 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

Feeling lonely?

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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.

Human connection bolsters the immune system. That’s why it’s more important than ever to be kind.

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02 Apr 2020 • The Washington Post

A New York hospital transformed by the pandemic

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Inside a New York hospital on the front lines of the pandemic. And how health-care workers are forced to face their own mortality.

As they rush to save lives, health-care workers are updating their own wills and funeral plans

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