How Pandemics Wreak Havoc—and Open Minds | The New Yorker

How Pandemics Wreak Havoc—and Open Minds | The New Yorker

What to read around the web today

• Lessons of the Black Death. The New Yorker
• Inside the Milan hotel that housed Covid-19 patients. Wired
• Americans increase LSD use—and a bleak outlook for the world may be to blame. Scientific American
• The inside story of how California failed mass coronavirus testing. Los Angeles Times
• I couldn’t do anything’: The virus and an E.R. doctor’s suicide. The New York Times