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- New COVID-19 infections in NYC may be declining, but around the rest of the country, the number of new cases of COVID-19 has continued to increase steadily and is expected to continue that way in the immediate future.
- A French doctor says that the first patient treated for coronavirus in that country happened in December.
- Three family members in Michigan have been charged in the killing of a security guard who told a customer at a Family Dollar store to wear a state-mandated face mask.
- A segment of Americans have turned into coronavirus informants, "calling the police, public health authorities and the employers of people they believe are violating social-distancing decrees or stay-at-home orders."
- It seems pretty likely that Broadway productions won't return until 2021.
- Grimes and Elon Musk had their baby, and Musk tweeted that the kid is named X Æ A-12 Musk (though that may or may not be a joke).
- Eater argues that to-go and delivery cocktails should continue to be legal after the pandemic.
- Our new pandemic-related vernacular has permeated everyday speech, "yielding dictionary updates and slangified phrases."
- “I’m sorry,” climate reporter Emily Atkin told The Guardian, “but if you still refuse to see parallels between climate change and coronavirus then honestly you’re just stupid.”
- Watch the trailer for Space Force, the new Netflix comedy starring Steve Carrell.
- The Times has a great ongoing feature focused on profiling individual frontline health care workers during the crisis.
- Listen to new singles from: the Dirty Projectors (from the second of five EPs coming out this year), Woods, and Rolling Blackouts CF.
- And finally, scrub scrub scrub, look at that cub in a tub:
Published May 5, 2020
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