Axios Re:Cap

On March 1, NY-Presbyterian Hospital accepted the first known COVID-19 patient in the New York City area. Its CEO Dr. Steven Corwin, who treated patients during the HIV and AIDs crisis, was watching the coronavirus epidemic in Italy and knew how bad things could get. 

Corwin joins Axios Re:Cap to discuss the decisions he made that week in order to prepare for the surge he saw coming — in staffing, in canceling elective surgeries and in obtaining PPE.

Plus, we revisit why March 11 was the day the pandemic finally felt real to many Americans.

Many describe the NBA’s decision to suspend its season as the moment the threat of coronavirus and its impact on our lives became real to them.

Adam Silver joins Axis Re:Cap to talk about how he learned of the first covid case in the NBA, how the decision to suspend the season fell to him, and how he thinks about the consequential nature of his decision.

Plus, Axios Re:Cap revisits the day Italy became a red zone and the U.S. designated its first “containment area.”

Los Angeles Unified is the second largest school district in the country and 80% of its students live in poverty. 

Austin Beutner joins Axios Re:Cap to discuss how he made the decision to send students home, how he worked with Apple to procure half a million computers, and how he stood up one of the largest free meal programs in U.S. history — not just for students, but for anyone — which has now distributed over 110 million meals. 

Plus, Axios Re:Cap revisits a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing that hinted at where the days and months were headed.

Facebook was one of the first companies to send employees home due to the pandemic, and other companies were soon looking to Facebook as an example.

Sheryl Sandberg joins Axios Re:Cap to discuss her conversations with Mark Zuckerberg, to share how remote work impacted her own family and to unpack the many other decisions that had to happen at Facebook nearly simultaneously, such as how to deal with COVID-19 information on its platforms and how to help small businesses. 

Plus, Axios Re:Cap revisits one moment from this date last year: a campaign rally for Bernie Sanders in Michigan.

We’re sharing the fourth episode of the Hard Truths podcast series.

In this episode, a conversation between two key Democratic lawmakers on their journey to Congress.

Guest: Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) and Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY).

Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Carol Wu, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Dan Bobkoff, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alex Sugiura and Michele Salcedo. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected].

American technologists have begun sounding alarm bells about the U.S. falling behind China on artificial intelligence, including when it comes to defense applications.

Axios Re:Cap goes deeper with Brandon Tseng, co-founder of a defense drone software startup called Shield AI, to better understand the technical, policy and ethical issues at stake.

The top business story of 2021 has been stock market democratization, as hordes of younger investors have begun using mobile apps to buy shares in everything from GameStop to Google.

Dan digs into this trend with Lauren Simmons, the host of the new reality series "Going Public." At 22, Simmons was the youngest-ever female trader on the New York Stock Exchange and only the second Black female trader in its history.

Collectibles and art have gone digital, enabled by a new sort of technology known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Just recently, Canadian singer and visual artist Grimes earned $6 million via an NFT auction, while a maker of digital basketball cards was valued at around $2 billion by venture capitalists. Dan digs into the NFT craze with David Pakman, a partner with VC firm Venrock and one of the earliest investors in one of the first NFTs, called CryptoKitties.

The Affordable Care Act is still standing, despite numerous GOP efforts to repeal it and progressive pleas to expand it. Dan talks with Jonathan Cohn, a longtime health care reporter at the Huffington Post and author of a new book on the ACA called “The 10 Year War,” to learn where the law stands today and what we should expect to come next.

Airbnb and DoorDash went public within 24 hours of each other, yesterday released their first ever quarterly earnings reports on the same day, and are both expecting big changes to business when the pandemic recedes. In this episode, Dan and Tony Xu dig into the company’s earnings report and what’s next for DoorDash, delivery and restaurants.