14 Apps and Tools to Stave Off Cabin Fever

Millions of people are staying inside for the indefinite future. Here are a few apps to help you socialize, exercise, and meditate from your own home.

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How Decades of Offshoring Led to a Mask Shortage in a Pandemic

US companies have shifted production overseas, especially to China. We got cheaper products. But now we can't make vital health care supplies.

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This Is the ‘Cozy Catastrophe’ Americans Have Always Wanted

No commitments\! No commutes\! No cares\! Admit it: The coronavirus apocalypse is actually kind of fun for you.

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When the World Stops, Traveling in John Keats’s ‘Realms of Gold’

In 1820, the British poet spent 10 days quarantined in the Bay of Naples as typhus raged, an enforced stillness mirrored by our own. In October of 1820, typhus raged in Naples.

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Sabrina Ionescu’s Big Moment Wasn’t the One She Expected

EUGENE, Ore. — Sabrina Ionescu woke not long after dawn in her small apartment, laced up her black Nikes and walked across a deserted street to the looming arena where she had spent the last four years creating memories. She needed to find something she could control.

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Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Drops Idea of Quarantining New York Region

India’s abrupt nationwide lockdown left hundreds of thousands of laborers homeless and prompted one of the largest migrations in the country’s modern history. New York City’s 911 system has been overwhelmed by emergency medical calls in numbers not seen Sept. 11, 2001.

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Who Should Be Saved First? Experts Offer Ethical Guidance

How do doctors and hospitals decide who gets potentially lifesaving treatment and who doesn’t? “It would be irresponsible at this point not to get ready to make tragic decisions about who lives and who dies,” said Dr.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/upshot/coronavirus-rationing-decisions-ethicists.html
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