The New Yorker - USA (2020-04-20)

THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 39 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the Centers for Disease Control, issued ...

40 THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 he said in an interview for an N.I.H. oral history. “I think that speaks for sound scientific a ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 41 N.I.H. line that research need not focus on the immediate welfare of patients. “When we had cli ...

42 THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 were growing everywhere. With so many AIDS patients taking untested medi- cations, federal heal ...

be able to spread efficiently, through coughing, sneezing, or shaking hands. That combination is rare, but, when it appears, the ...

44 THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 • • program called PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. By the time Bush too ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 45 And yet, despite our mastery of mo- lecular biology, we live in an era in which someone can wak ...

46 THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 April 1st: An emergency field hospital, in Central Park, where doctors, nurses, and other disas ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 47 onavirus patients. Many medical facilities in the city, like Mount Sinai Hospital, nearby, have ...

48 THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 April 7th: At 8 A.M., a line to collect meals at the Bowery Mission, on Manhattan’s Lower East ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 49 wide poll, forty-one per cent of New Yorkers said that they were concerned about being able to ...

50 THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 April 7th: Armed-forces personnel arrive at the Javits Center, in Manhattan. The field hospital ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 51 thousands of beds, has come under criticism for being slow to accept patients. ...

52 THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 April 7th: Firefighters clap for medical workers outside the Brooklyn Hospital Center. Every ev ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 53 al weeks, New Yorkers all across the city have paused to applaud health-care workers. ...

54 THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 AREPORTERAT LARGE ENABLER-IN- CHIEF Mitch McConnell ’s refusal to rein in Trump is looking risk ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 55 McConnell, who’s far less popular than Trump in Kentucky, rose in state polls after defending h ...

56 THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 accommodating Trump and his base, McConnell and other Republicans went along as Party leaders d ...

THENEWYORKER,APRIL20, 2020 57 “If you don’t want me to sound like that when I imitate you, then don’t sound like that when yo ...

Redmon, whom McConnell divorced in 1980. After the marriage ended, Red- mon, who holds a Ph.D. in philosophy, left Kentucky and ...