This is really grim reading, but useful to understand where the statistics (especially the US statistics) are coming from.

A report from the US.

More great reporting.

from 4 April: “nine Georgia counties, most of them also in the southern part of the state, not only lack hospitals but have no practicing physicians at all”

“Department of Homeland Security was still considering redirecting our PPE. Only some quick calls leading to intervention by our congressional representative prevented its seizure.” Wow.

Brilliant long read about New York.

Tremendous.

@cstross: “No it won’t.”

Brilliant reporting.

Fair, from David Frum.

Forensic and specific.

from @fivethirtyeight, which has been very good on the US statistics.

It’s a lie by Victor Davis Hanson.

Balanced and fair, by Max Boot.

James Baker: "Every Marine knows better than to pull a knife in a gunfight. But so far, that appears to be the federal government’s approach to battling Covid-19."