What Happened to the CDC?

Two of the worlds biggest companies, Apple and Amazon, rely on a supply chain that is spread all across the world, in many countries that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus. The tech giants employ hundreds of thousands of people so their fate, in many ways, is the fate of t ...  Show more

Losing the ability to smell is one of the strangest clues that someone may have COVID-19. Experts around the world are still trying to understand why this symptom pops up, and what it means for patients. Some are calling on people who have lost their sense of smell to get tested ...  Show more

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As an American Covid-19 case record falls, the CDC chief explains why the agency reduced its isolation advice if you’re asymptomatic … and why it left testing out of the equation. Plus: Putin reaches out to Biden. And: a look back at Harry Reid’s remarkable life. To learn more ab ...  Show more

The idea that the pandemic might never end has been a joke since March 2020, but now that joke seems to be a reality. CNN Political Director David Chalian explains how the White House is pivoting strategies from trying to eradicate Covid to learning to live with it. The CDC’s job ...  Show more

When it comes to pandemic preparedness the United States was once one of the world’s best prepared countries. Today it has one of the world’s worst Covid mortality rates. So what went wrong? The financial journalist and writer Michael Lewis of The Big Short fame, has investigated ...  Show more