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    Extra Extra: Inside The Dark Underworld Of Antibody Tests

    by Jake Offenhartz
    Published May 15, 2020
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    • It's time we talked about Jared Kushner's "plan to enrich himself at your expense," writes Libby Watson in the New Republic.
    • Surging demand for antibody tests has created a strange, potentially dangerous underworld.
    • A report finds that new leases for Manhattan apartments took a 71 percent nosedive last month.
    • Anyone in the Bronx misplace an enormous snake?
    • The Atlantic offers this hour-by-hour account of what Stanley Tucci is doing and eating (lamp chops, primarily).
    • A Manhattan woman can keep chain-smoking inside her apartment, neighbors be damned, a local judge ruled.
    • Michael Jordan once cheated at cards against a teammate's mother, and other tales of the basketball great/"hypercompetitive weirdo" that ESPN doc hasn't shown you.
    • The upstate New York barber who defied stay at home orders to continue cutting hair has tested positive for COVID-19.
    • The city's beaches may not be opening anytime soon, but essential Rockaway bar Connolly's will begin serving to-go piña coladas next Friday. Summer is saved?
    • NYT film critics Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott think we should all watch this 1972 farce, What's Up, Doc?, this weekend.
    • Hey, you made it through another week! Time for a kitchen dance party with Shaq:

    Mr. Brightside - The Killers pic.twitter.com/Oam5Yk3spr

    — Dj Shaq (@ShaqDjsAnything) May 14, 2020

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