Live Covid-19 Tracker and Updates

Here’s what you need to know: ImageA health care worker handed a test kit to a motorist at a drive-in virus testing center in Los Angeles last month.Credit…Mario Tama/Getty Images The C.D.C. reverses its guidance on testing for people who were exposed to the virus and aren’t showing symptoms. The Centers for Disease Control and…

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Shopping for Fashion, Six Months On

Will shopping ever return to the way it was before the age of coronavirus? Probably not in 2020. ImageShopping at Selfridges in London, in July. Credit…Getty Images Sept. 18, 2020 Six months have passed since lockdown measures were put in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus, causing sales for the fashion and retail industries…

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A Playlist of Your Favorite Cover Songs

Welcome. Last week I asked you to send your favorite cover songs. We received a fantastic assortment of tracks, some classic covers (Billy Stewart’s “Summertime”), some recent renditions (Laura Marling’s “Blues Run the Game”). We’ve compiled the submissions in a Spotify playlist where you can spend a few hours in audio bliss. Listening to so…

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Inside the Social World of Shift-Scheduling Apps

Zoom fatigue, layoffs in Slack chat, reply-all meltdowns and the general destruction of work-life boundaries: The digitized plight of the white-collar office employee, 9-to-5-ing remotely, has been documented extensively. In non-white-collar industries, hit even harder by the pandemic — small businesses like restaurants, bars and independent retailers — managers have spent much of this year dealing…

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