Everything you need to know this morning.
Jeffrey C. Billman
Duke Health Joins National Study for COVID-19 Drug That Got a Sweetheart Deal from Trump’s FDA
Amid a fierce backlash and likely legal challenges, manufacturer Gilead Sciences asked the FDA yesterday to rescind the deal.
Hang In There, Everyone!
We’ll get through this together—or, you know, at least six feet apart.
Quickbait: The Joys of Capitalism in a Time of Crisis
Stop. Price. Gouging. Necessities.
No One Tracks How Many People Were Denied Coronavirus Tests. Last Week, a Durham IT Guy Gave It a Shot.
“The numbers you see on the news, they’re only based on people who have had access to a test.”
How to Profit from the Plague
It takes an exceptional kind of venality to pierce the armor of numbness and provoke seething, go-grab-the-pitchforks rage. In other words: Richard Burr.
Durham Mayor Steve Schewel to Issue Stay-at-Home Order
“Reading about the lost opportunity to act early in Italy, and its devastating consequences, is very sobering.”
Trump’s New Favorite Cable News Network Thinks UNC Created the Coronavirus in a Lab
President Trump, facing the biggest public health threat since the 1918 influenza, whined about the media in response to a question from a “journalist” who had, days ago, alleged that a UNC lab had unleashed the coronavirus on the world.

