Good morning! It’s Saturday, and I have a new pandemic project: I’ve started a directory of independent bookstores that are still operating, with locations and what kind of sales they’re doing (online, free shipping, curbside pickup, etc.). Please share the link with your reader friends, and if you’ve got a favorite store I don’t have listed yet let me know!
We’re now past 100k, but I wanted to note this milestone: U.S. Surpasses China In Cases Of Coronavirus (NPR)
And: 3.3 Million Americans Filed For Unemployment Last Week, Almost 5 Times The Record High (FiveThirtyEight)
New Hampshire’s Stay-At-Home Order: What Does It Mean? (NHPR)
Trump's back to work dreams are a coronavirus nightmare. Good thing he can't enforce them. (NBC News)
Thank goodness for Emily VanDerWerff: What day is it today? (Vox)
! Venezuelan Leader Maduro Is Charged in the U.S. With Drug Trafficking (NYT)
As Hospitals Prepare for COVID-19, Life-Saving Trans Surgeries Are Delayed (Vice)
Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety (NYT)
Fossil hunters find evidence of 555m-year-old human relative (The Guardian)
And today’s longer reads:
How the COVID Tracking Project fills the public health data gap (CJR)
This piece on Denmark’s response is fascinating: ‘Do More—Fast. Don’t Wait.’ (The Atlantic)
There’s psychology behind the foods we don’t buy in a crisis (The Counter)
Michael Phelps supports Tokyo postponement, but also worries about athletes’ depression (NBC Sports)
Full Circle: The long and complicated history of why there are 360 degrees in a circle. (History Today)
xoxo, Katie