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People enjoy the sun at an outdoor restaurant, despite the continuing spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Stockholm, Sweden March 26, 2020. The photo shows a large number of people sitting lose together in an outdoor eating area. TT News Agency/Janerik Henriksson via REUTERS

Five Problems With the Swedish Approach to COVID-19

by Theo Vos, Katherine Leach-Kemon

As herd immunity remains elusive, Sweden’s experience seems to be a cautionary tale—Norway and Denmark have fared better

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Residents wearing face masks queue for nucleic acid testings in Wuhan, the Chinese city hit hardest by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, Hubei province, China May 16, 2020. The photo shows what appears to be a family through the hole of a plastic barricade. REUTERS/Aly Song

Ten Million Tests in Ten Days

by Yanzhong Huang

Inside Wuhan’s massive COVID-19 testing campaign, which China is expected to repeat elsewhere—just not with antibodies

Health care workers wheel the bodies of deceased people from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center during the coronavirus outbreak in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on April 4, 2020. The photo shows two people in blue protective suits wheeling people away from a hospital entrance. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
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I Am an ER Doctor in New York City

by Vineet Kumar Sharma

The unseen mental and emotional cost of the COVID-19 pandemic—chronicled in the journals of one emergency physician