13 Books to Add to Your Cabin-Fever Reading List

These ones.

The Coronavirus Did Not Escape from a Lab

Here's how we know.

Doctors and Nurses Account for More than 8% of Italy's Coronavirus Cases

‘We fear that we have almost lost control.’

How to Triage Patients Who Need Intensive Care

A new computer model analyzes when to admit people to intensive care units—and when to move them out—which could help doctors handle the coronavirus surge.

We Need More Ventilators, But We Also Need People Who Know How to Use Them

Do we have enough respiratory therapists?

A Message From Italy

It’s going to get worse. Much worse.

Venezuela’s Medical System Has Already Collapsed.

What will happen when the coronavirus hits?

The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming

Will the world now wake up to the global threat of zoonotic diseases?

Seeding a Dark World with New Life

Greet the specter of death by defiantly planting a life-sustaining vegetable garden.

At The Margins

On writing in, and appreciating, books.

The Chinese Wild-Animal Industry and Wet Markets Must Go

Should have been banned long ago.

Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How

A crisis on this scale can reorder society in dramatic ways, for better or worse. Here are 34 big thinkers’ predictions for what’s to come.

Game Changer

 Trump announces FDA clears drug for Wuhan Coronavirus use.

What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus’s The Plague

Catastrophe, contagion, and the human condition.

New Marvel Comic Series

 Featuring ‘Nonbinary’ superhero named ‘Snowflake’.

Italy’s Answer to Coronavirus is a Classic Published Almost 200 Years Ago

Alessio Perrone reports from Milan.

Medical Company Threatens to Sue Volunteers That 3D-printed Valves for Life-saving Coronavirus Treatments

The valve typically costs about $11,000 — the volunteers made them for about $1.

Dancing Cheek to Cheek? Argentine Tango Faces Curbs as Coronavirus Spreads

If it takes two to tango, then the national dance of Argentina may come up one short in the age of coronavirus. We’re supposed to be flying to Buenos Aires on April 6th. May not happen.

What Can History Tell Us about Epidemics?

Can we learn from history about how diseases spread, and how we respond to them?

The Pandemic Imagination

In the works of Camus and Thomas Mann, an outbreak reveals how dysfunctional society already was.

B.C. Couple Confronted at Costco for Buying Bulk Lysol Wipes to Re-sell for Profit

Vancouver pair made $30K selling cleaning products on Amazon during COVID-19 pandemic.

Real Estate for the Apocalypse

A journey into a survival bunker.

Literature for a Lockdown

From Giovanni Boccaccio to Michael Crichton, we have some, er, feel-good classics to cheer you up.