The Pandemic’s Next Test
Summer is coming, and COVID experts are watching.
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Suddenly, the pandemic feels different. As my colleague Katherine J. Wu wrote yesterday, comparably low COVID-19 rates this winter and spring have marked “the longest stretch of quasi-normalcy that humanity has had since 2020’s start.” But it’s premature to call this the beginning of an after. I called Katie to discuss why.
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
- Never give artificial intelligence the nuclear codes.
- King Charles’s very hobbity coronation
- What the Supreme Court does in the shadows
