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Leonard Bernstein on what we know (and still don’t) about the coronavirus. Laura Meckler explains the changes schools might have to make to reopen in the fall. And Anna Fifield on Kim Jong Un, missing in action.
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What you need to know about the coronavirus.
Alternating schedules. Lunch in the classroom. Students in masks. No football. School districts will have to change things up if they want to reopen in the fall.
Where is North Korea’s leader?
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Rosalind Helderman explains how the cruise industry carried the coronavirus around the globe. Greg Miller on the virus briefings Trump skipped. And, how young caregivers are impacted by social distancing, from Tara Bahrampour.
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Cruise ships kept sailing for weeks after the coronavirus was first detected, carrying the virus around the globe.
President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited the coronavirus threat. He skipped them. 
Young caregivers are used to social isolation. Covid-19 is bringing added stress as it threatens resources they depend upon.
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Two doctors on the mysterious blood-clotting complication killing coronavirus patients. Heather Long explains why the economy won’t just bounce back in a “V-shaped” recovery. Plus, Lindsey Sitz on why washing your hands a lot doesn’t mean you’re “so OCD.” 
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Doctors say that a blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients.
What is a W-shaped economic recovery? (Hint: It’s scary.)
If you wash your hands a lot, it doesn’t mean you’re “so OCD.” Here’s what it’s really like to have it. 
If you want to learn more about OCD, there are helpful resources at iocdf.org.
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Even as governors, mayors and the federal government urge or require Americans to wear masks to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the nation is divided about whether to comply.
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Will Americans wear masks to prevent coronavirus spread? Politics, history, race and crime factor into tough decisions.
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Dan Lamothe explains how the Navy tried and failed to control a coronavirus outbreak -- and a crisis of confidence -- on the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Plus, child psychiatrist Matthew Biel on how to talk to kids about the global pandemic. 
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How an outbreak on the USS Theodore Roosevelt became a defining moment for the U.S. military.
Parents are the filter for how kids understand the pandemic. Tips on how to talk to them about the coronavirus.
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Georgia will begin reopening businesses Friday, against the advice of experts and the White House. William Wan reports on what will happen next. For survivors of AIDS, an eerie deja vu, from reporter Jada Yuan. And, what Trump’s new immigration policy actually means, from Nick Miroff. 
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States rushing to reopen are likely making a deadly error, coronavirus models and experts warn.
They survived the HIV crisis. Now New York’s aging gay population is confronting another plague.
Trump signs order pausing immigration for 60 days, with exceptions.
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On Earth Day, Sarah Kaplan asks how we can be better Earthlings. Seung Min Kim analyzes the new coronavirus response bill working its way through Congress. And Monica Hesse explains why we’re all having extra-weird dreams.
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What does it mean to be a good Earthling?
The Senate has passed a $484 billion bill that would expand small-business aid and boost money for hospitals and testing. Will it be enough?
You’re not the only one having weird dreams. Being trapped in our homes has made our subconsciouses run wild.
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Juliet Eilperin explains the delays in widespread testing. Young people aren’t as vulnerable to the coronavirus, but the crisis is affirming their political frustrations, Hannah Knowles reports. And Michelle Lee on campaign fundraising in a pandemic.
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Why is it taking so long to ramp up coronavirus testing?
Generation Z is fed up with the status quo. Coronavirus could affirm their beliefs.
Joe Biden posted the biggest monthly fundraising haul of his campaign in March. Will the pandemic slow him down?
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Laura Reiley explains the kinks in the food supply chain leaving grocery shelves bare. Grocery workers share their well-founded fears with Abha Bhattarai. Erin Patrick O’Connor hears from sanitation workers on the pandemic’s front line.
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The industry says we have enough food. Here’s why some grocery store shelves are empty anyway.
The grocery workers on the front line of the pandemic never thought of their jobs as risky. Now, they’re scared to go to work.
Sanitation workers are exposed to the coronavirus every day they go to work.
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Over the past few weeks, many people have said they feel like figures in an Edward Hopper painting. On this bonus episode of Post Reports, art critic Sebastian Smee has a reminder from Renoir and Manet that the good times will return. 
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We’re all alone. So let’s get lost in these paintings of parties.
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