Asteroid or Potato

Is this asteroid Arrokoth or a potato? Perhaps, after all the data was beamed back to Earth from NASA’s robotic New Horizons spacecraft, the featured high resolution image of asteroid Arrokoth was constructed. Perhaps, alternatively, the featured image is of a potato. Let’s consider some facts. Arrokoth is the most distant asteroid ever visited and a surviving remnant of the early years of our Solar System. A potato is a root vegetable that you can eat. Happy April Fool’s Day from the folks at APOD! Although asteroid Arrokoth may look like a potato, in fact very much like the featured potato, Arrokoth (formerly known as Ultima Thule) is about 200,000 times wider and much harder to eat. via NASA https://ift.tt/2UQHooB

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Your Wednesday Briefing by Isabella Kwai and Mike Ives

By Isabella Kwai and Mike Ives

Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Asia: Here’s what you need to know.

Published: March 31, 2020 at 11:31PM

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With the Coronavirus, It’s Again Trump vs. Mother Nature by Thomas L. Friedman

By Thomas L. Friedman

The president’s failure to understand his limits is very costly.

Published: March 31, 2020 at 06:44PM

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Column: Postponing Olympics Merely an Inconvenience for Golf by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

The move was expected, yet no less exceptional, when the IOC decided to postpone the Tokyo Olympics until next year.

Published: March 31, 2020 at 06:09PM

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Your Wednesday Briefing by Melina Delkic

By Melina Delkic

Coronavirus, Vladimir Putin, India’s workers: Here’s what you need to know.

Published: March 31, 2020 at 04:01PM

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Japan Says Destroyer and Chinese Boat Collided; China Says One Hurt by Reuters

By Reuters

A Japanese destroyer and a Chinese fishing boat collided in the East China Sea on Monday night and no one was injured, Japan’s defense minister said, but China said a fisherman was hurt and suggested the Japanese vessel was to blame.

Published: March 31, 2020 at 06:27AM

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What Wins in the Heartland, Machismo or Intellect? by Austin Considine

By Austin Considine

Callan Wink’s debut novel, “August,” pits brains against brawn in an America far from the literary world.

Published: March 31, 2020 at 05:00AM

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China Chases Indonesia’s Fishing Fleets, Staking Claim to Sea’s Riches by Hannah Beech, Muktita Suhartono and Adam Dean

By Hannah Beech, Muktita Suhartono and Adam Dean

The Indonesian government appears to have backed away from confronting China, its largest trading partner. “Our fishermen feel scared,” one official said.

Published: March 31, 2020 at 03:00AM

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The Galactic Center from Radio to X ray

In how many ways does the center of our Galaxy glow? This enigmatic region, about 26,000 light years away toward the constellation of the Archer (Sagittarius), glows in every type of light that we can see. In the featured image, high-energy X-ray emission captured by NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory appears in green and blue, while low-energy radio emission captured by SARAO’s ground-based MeerKAT telescope array is colored red. Just on the right of the colorful central region lies Sagittarius A (Sag A), a strong radio source that coincides with Sag A*, our Galaxy’s central supermassive black hole. Hot gas surrounds Sag A, as well as a series of parallel radio filaments known as the Arc, seen just left of the image center. Numerous unusual single radio filaments are visible around the image. Many stars orbit in and around Sag A, as well as numerous small black holes and dense stellar cores known as neutron stars and white dwarfs. The Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole is currently being imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/2QY1fBk

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European Shares Retreat as Coronavirus Fears Intensify by Reuters

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European stock markets headed lower on Monday, as fears about the economic hit from the coronavirus pandemic intensified with several nations extending near-total lockdowns.

Published: March 30, 2020 at 05:33AM

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World Shares Extend Losses as Toll From Pandemic Surges by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

World markets started the week with fresh losses as countries reported surging numbers of infections from the coronavirus that are forcing shutdowns of travel and business in many regions.

Published: March 30, 2020 at 02:03AM

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Dollar on Firmer Footing as Investors Seek Safety by Reuters

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The dollar snapped a week of declines and the safe-haven yen found support on Monday, as coronavirus lockdowns tightened across the world and investors braced for a prolonged period of uncertainty.

Published: March 30, 2020 at 03:27AM

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The Colors of Saturn from Cassini

What creates Saturn’s colors? The featured picture of Saturn only slightly exaggerates what a human would see if hovering close to the giant ringed world. The image was taken in 2005 by the robot Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. Here Saturn’s majestic rings appear directly only as a curved line, appearing brown, in part, from its infrared glow. The rings best show their complex structure in the dark shadows they create across the upper part of the planet. The northern hemisphere of Saturn can appear partly blue for the same reason that Earth’s skies can appear blue — molecules in the cloudless portions of both planet’s atmospheres are better at scattering blue light than red. When looking deep into Saturn’s clouds, however, the natural gold hue of Saturn’s clouds becomes dominant. It is not known why southern Saturn does not show the same blue hue — one hypothesis holds that clouds are higher there. It is also not known why some of Saturn’s clouds are colored gold. via NASA https://ift.tt/3dOhoD8

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The Coronavirus Is Upending Life in Rural America, Too by Robert Leonard

By Robert Leonard

People here are stocking up on groceries and toilet paper — and guns and ammo and, soon, morel mushrooms.

Published: March 29, 2020 at 03:00PM

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Call to the Wild: Great Outdoors an Escape in Tough Times by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

Jim Klug’s office phone rings off the hook with anxious anglers inquiring about the status of their upcoming fly-fishing trips.

Published: March 29, 2020 at 01:15PM

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Largest US Dam Removal Stirs Debate Over Coveted West Water by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

The second-largest river in California has sustained Native American tribes with plentiful salmon for millennia, provided upstream farmers with irrigation water for generations and served as a haven for retirees who built dream homes along its ban…

Published: March 29, 2020 at 11:21AM

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Largest US Dam Removal Stirs Debate Over Coveted West Water by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

California’s second-largest river has sustained Native American tribes with plentiful salmon for millennia, provided upstream farmers with irrigation water for generations and served as a haven for retirees who built dream homes along its banks.

Published: March 29, 2020 at 11:21AM

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A 212 Hour Exposure of Orion

The constellation of Orion is much more than three stars in a row. It is a direction in space that is rich with impressive nebulas. To better appreciate this well-known swath of sky, an extremely long exposure was taken over many clear nights in 2013 and 2014. After 212 hours of camera time and an additional year of processing, the featured 1400-exposure collage spanning over 40 times the angular diameter of the Moon emerged. Of the many interesting details that have become visible, one that particularly draws the eye is Barnard’s Loop, the bright red circular filament arcing down from the middle. The Rosette Nebula is not the giant red nebula near the top of the image — that is a larger but lesser known nebula known as Lambda Orionis. The Rosette Nebula is visible, though: it is the red and white nebula on the upper left. The bright orange star just above the frame center is Betelgeuse, while the bright blue star on the lower right is Rigel. Other famous nebulas visible include the Witch Head Nebula, the Flame Nebula, the Fox Fur Nebula, and, if you know just where to look, the comparatively small Horsehead Nebula. About those famous three stars that cross the belt of Orion the Hunter — in this busy frame they can be hard to locate, but a discerning eye will find them just below and to the right of the image center. via NASA https://ift.tt/3apIyhm

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The Healing Power of ‘Steven Universe’ by Nicole Clark

By Nicole Clark

The hit cartoon series has helped me process my biracial identity.

Published: March 28, 2020 at 03:00PM

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Whales Face More Fatal Ship Collisions as Waters Warm by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

Climate change is imperiling the world’s largest animals by increasing the likelihood of fatal collisions between whales and big ships that ply the same waters.

Published: March 28, 2020 at 12:15PM

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Turkey Limits Transport, Opposition Calls for ‘Stay-At-Home’ Order Over Virus by Reuters

By Reuters

Turkey halted inter-city trains and limited domestic flights on Saturday, as the main opposition called for a stay-at-home order after coronavirus cases jumped by a third in a day.

Published: March 28, 2020 at 03:51AM

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A Walk Through Town: Families, Coronavirus and Togetherness by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

In a quiet suburb just north of Richmond, Virginia, a mother and her three children spend a weekday afternoon planting a small garden of spinach, red cabbage and lettuce. Across town, a dad teaches his kids how to play volleyball on an empty court…

Published: March 28, 2020 at 06:33AM

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Stars Trail over Ragusa

In trying times, stars still trail in the night. Taken on March 14, this night skyscape was made by combining 230 exposures each 15 seconds long to follow the stars’ circular paths. The camera was fixed to a tripod on an isolated terrace near the center of Ragusa, Italy, on the island of Sicily. But the night sky was shared around the rotating planet. A friend to celestial navigators and astrophotographers alike Polaris, the north star, makes the short bright trail near the center of the concentric celestial arcs. via NASA https://ift.tt/2Jnsgts

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Highlights of Trump-Signed $2.2T Economic Relief Package by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

Highlights of a $2.2 trillion package to help businesses, workers and a health care system staggered by the coronavirus that President Donald Trump signed into law Friday after the House voted final congressional approval.

Published: March 27, 2020 at 06:35PM

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NOT REAL NEWS: Debunking Yet More False Coronavirus Content by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:

Published: March 27, 2020 at 05:05PM

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Turkey Adopts ‘Voluntary’ Stay-At-Home Quarantine by Reuters

By Reuters

President Tayyip Erdogan called on Friday for a “voluntary quarantine” in which Turks stay at home except for shopping or basic needs to stem a surge of coronavirus cases, which jumped by a third in a day to 5,698 with 92 dead.

Published: March 27, 2020 at 09:02AM

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One Shop Became a Lifeline for Rhode Island’s Solitary Clam Fishermen by C. J. Chivers

By C. J. Chivers

Restaurant closings have devastated the market for quahoggers, who are prohibited from selling directly to consumers.

Published: March 27, 2020 at 03:08PM

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Australia’s Record Heat Means Another Blow to Great Barrier Reef by Richard Pérez-Peña

By Richard Pérez-Peña

For the third time in five years, abnormally warm water has caused a “mass bleaching” of coral, and some of it will not survive. Scientists say global warming is killing reefs worldwide.

Published: March 26, 2020 at 02:24PM

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Andromeda Station

This surreal picture isn’t from a special effects sci-fi movie. It is a digital composite of frames of the real Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, rising over a real mountain. Exposures tracking the galaxy and background stars have been digitally combined with separate exposures of the foreground terrain. All background and foreground exposures were made back to back with the same camera and telephoto lens on the same night from the same location. In the “Deepscape” combination they produce a stunning image that reveals a range of brightness and color that your eye can’t quite see on its own. Still, it does look like you could ride a cable car up this mountain and get off at the station right next to Andromeda. But at 2.5 million light-years from Earth the big beautiful spiral galaxy really is a little out of reach as a destination. Don’t worry, though. Just wait 5 billion years and the Andromeda Galaxy will come to you. This Andromeda Station is better known as Weisshorn, the highest peak of the ski area in Arosa, Switzerland. via NASA https://ift.tt/33Omk65

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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Wins a Victory in Dakota Access Pipeline Case by Lisa Friedman

By Lisa Friedman

A federal judge on Wednesday struck down permits for the pipeline and ordered a new environmental review of the project.

Published: March 25, 2020 at 06:04PM

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Highlights of Congress’ Economic Relief Plan by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

Partial highlights of a roughly $2 trillion package to rush aid to businesses, workers and a health care system slammed by the coronavirus pandemic. Details of the package, written by Trump administration officials and Democratic and Republican Se…

Published: March 25, 2020 at 03:50PM

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Opening Day Memories: From Seaver to Scully, Ted to the Ted by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

No game today.

Published: March 25, 2020 at 02:17PM

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Star Forming Region S106

Massive star IRS 4 is beginning to spread its wings. Born only about 100,000 years ago, material streaming out from this newborn star has formed the nebula dubbed Sharpless 2-106 Nebula (S106), featured here. A large disk of dust and gas orbiting Infrared Source 4 (IRS 4), visible in brown near the image center, gives the nebula an hourglass or butterfly shape. S106 gas near IRS 4 acts as an emission nebula as it emits light after being ionized, while dust far from IRS 4 reflects light from the central star and so acts as a reflection nebula. Detailed inspection of a relevant infrared image of S106 reveal hundreds of low-mass brown dwarf stars lurking in the nebula’s gas. S106 spans about 2 light-years and lies about 2000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus). via NASA https://ift.tt/3dqw8aZ

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Restaurant Closings Inflict Collateral Damage on Other Businesses by Pete Wells

By Pete Wells

Fishermen, florists, bakers and farmers are just a few of the many Americans struggling to find new revenue sources as dining rooms shutter.

Published: March 24, 2020 at 11:59AM

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A Black Hole Disrupts a Passing Star

What happens to a star that goes near a black hole? If the star directly impacts a massive black hole, then the star falls in completely — and everything vanishes. More likely, though, the star goes close enough to have the black hole’s gravity pull away the outer layers of the star, or disrupt the star. Then most of the star’s gas does not fall into the black hole. These stellar tidal disruption events can be as bright as a supernova, and an increasing amount of them are being discovered by automated sky surveys. In the featured artist’s illustration, a star has just passed a massive black hole and sheds gas that continues to orbit. The inner edge of a disk of gas and dust surrounding the black hole is heated by the disruption event and may glow long after the star is gone. via NASA https://ift.tt/2WKA93Y

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Excerpts From Woody Allen Memoir ‘Apropos of Nothing’ by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

Excerpts from Woody Allen’s new memoir, “Apropos of Nothing,” which was released Monday after a delay because the original publisher backed out of releasing the book.

Published: March 24, 2020 at 12:32AM

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Jeremy Marre, Documentarian of World Music, Is Dead at 76 by Jon Pareles

By Jon Pareles

With a minimal camera and sound crew, Mr. Marre traveled the world to film music and musicians on home turf that was often gritty and unglamorous.

Published: March 23, 2020 at 11:44AM

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Alaska Faces Triple Hit From Coronavirus Due to Reliance on Oil, Fishing, Tourism by Reuters

By Reuters

The U.S. state of Alaska is so far distant from the worst medical ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, but its economy is in critical condition.

Published: March 23, 2020 at 06:08AM

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How Much Do You Know About the United Kingdom? by Compiled by John Otis

By Compiled by John Otis

Can you find the United Kingdom on a map? What else do you know about this European nation with a population of about 67 million people?

Published: March 23, 2020 at 05:30AM

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The Plastic-Hunting Pirates of the Cornish Coast by Alexander Turner

By Alexander Turner

The Clean Ocean Sailing initiative removes plastic waste from areas of England’s coastline that are inaccessible by foot.

Published: March 23, 2020 at 05:00AM

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From the Pleiades to the Eridanus Loop

If you stare at an interesting patch of sky long enough, will it look different? In the case of Pleiades and Hyades star clusters — and surrounding regions — the answer is: yes, pretty different. Long duration camera exposures reveal an intricate network of interwoven interstellar dust and gas that was previously invisible not only to the eye but to lower exposure images. In the featured wide and deep mosaic, the dust stands out spectacularly, with the familiar Pleaides star cluster visible as the blue patch near the top of the image. Blue is the color of the Pleiades’ most massive stars, whose distinctive light reflects from nearby fine dust. On the upper left is the Hyades star cluster surrounding the bright, orange, foreground-star Aldebaran. Red glowing emission nebula highlight the bottom of the image, including the curving vertical red ribbon known as the Eridanus Loop. The pervasive dust clouds appear typically in light brown and are dotted with unrelated stars. via NASA https://ift.tt/2vHAFVr

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Coronavirus Rekindles Oil Spill Memories Along Gulf Coast by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

The spring of the coronavirus feels a lot like the summer of oil to residents along the Gulf Coast.

Published: March 22, 2020 at 08:17AM

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Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano

These people are not in danger. What is coming down from the left is just the Moon, far in the distance. Luna appears so large here because she is being photographed through a telescopic lens. What is moving is mostly the Earth, whose spin causes the Moon to slowly disappear behind Mount Teide, a volcano in the Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa. The people pictured are 16 kilometers away and many are facing the camera because they are watching the Sun rise behind the photographer. It is not a coincidence that a full moon rises just when the Sun sets because the Sun is always on the opposite side of the sky from a full moon. The featured video was made two years ago during the full Milk Moon. The video is not time-lapse — this was really how fast the Moon was setting. via NASA https://ift.tt/39asyhG

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Comet ATLAS and the Mighty Galaxies

Comet ATLAS C/2019 Y4 was discovered by the NASA funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, the last comet discovery reported in 2019. Now growing brighter in northern night skies, the comet’s pretty greenish coma is at the upper left of this telescopic skyview captured from a remotely operated observatory in New Mexico on March 18. At lower right are M81 and M82, well-known as large, gravitationally interacting galaxies. Seen through faint dust clouds above the Milky Way, the galaxy pair lies about 12 million light-years distant, toward the constellation Ursa Major. In bound Comet ATLAS is about 9 light-minutes from Earth, still beyond the orbit of Mars. The comet’s elongated orbit is similar to orbit of the Great Comet of 1844 though, a trajectory that will return this comet to the inner Solar System in about 6,000 years. Comet ATLAS will reach a perihelion or closest approach to the Sun on May 31 inside the orbit of Mercury and may become a naked-eye comet in the coming days. via NASA https://ift.tt/2U8fXYg

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Maybe the Survivor’s Daughter Could Survive by Mindy Greenstein

By Mindy Greenstein

When my tumor recurred, I didn’t tell Ma, yearning for a mommy to cry to, rather than one who’d cry to me.

Published: March 20, 2020 at 05:00AM

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What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Banker’ and ‘Blow the Man Down’ by Gabe Cohn

By Gabe Cohn

Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie star in a historical drama on Apple TV Plus. And “Blow the Man Down” brings sex, death and seafood to Amazon.

Published: March 20, 2020 at 01:00AM

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Morning, Planets, Moon, and Montreal

Dawn’s early light came to Montreal, northern planet Earth, on March 18, the day before the vernal equinox. At the end of that nearly equal night the Moon stands above a dense constellation of urban lights in this serene city and skyscape. Of course the Moon’s waning crescent faces toward the rising Sun. Skygazers could easily spot bright Jupiter just above the Moon, close on the sky to a fainter Mars. Saturn, a telescopic favorite, is just a pinprick of light below and farther left of the closer conjunction of Moon, Jupiter and Mars. Near the ecliptic, even Mercury is rising along a line extended to the horizon from Jupiter and Saturn. The elusive inner planet is very close to the horizon though, and not quite visible in this morning’s sky. via NASA https://ift.tt/2J3rt0B

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Arabs Urge Yemen’s Houthis to Allow UN to Assess Oil Tanker by The Associated Press

By The Associated Press

Six Arab countries are urging the U.N. Security Council to exercise “maximum efforts” to persuade Yemen’s Houthi Shiite rebels to allow the United Nations to inspect a tanker moored in the Red Sea while loaded with over a million barrels to preven…

Published: March 19, 2020 at 08:44PM

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What to Watch: How About Cherry-Pit Spitting or Australian Rules Football? by Victor Mather

By Victor Mather

Thursday brought an end to soccer in Turkey, but Aussie rules football got started on schedule.

Published: March 19, 2020 at 05:56PM

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Our Infectious Diseases Reporter on the ‘Urgent’ Response to the Coronavirus by Melina Delkic

By Melina Delkic

Donald G. McNeil Jr. writes about what the experts are saying. Here, he answers questions about the pandemic.

Published: March 19, 2020 at 05:00AM

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