White House, Petri Dish
<span>What I saw inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue today is cause for alarm.</span>
by Peter Nicholas
Aug 27, 2020
3 minutes
D to the White House in late May, I passed through a magnetometer and met a government agent who pointed an infrared thermometer at my forehead. At that point, the United States was seeing about 21,000 new coronavirus cases a day. Had I been coughing or experienced any recent headaches? the agent asked. No, I said, and was allowed into the building. Today, the country is experiencing about twice as many new positive cases each day. Yet when I arrived at the White House
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