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(THREAD)This is the story of how TV icon Larry King got paid to fake a 2019 interview with a Russian journalist — and ended up ensnared in an international disinformation

Meet Dr. Foluso Fakorede.He’s the only cardiologist in Bolivar County, Mississippi. He runs what's called the Amputation Prevention Institute.@lizziepresser spent months unpacking why black diabetics lose their limbs at three

We interviewed experts and frontline officials from Italy, Germany, Spain, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. Of all of them, we found more commonalities than differences. So…These are the 7 things

5. Don’t try to go back to “normal” Our goal isn’t to get back to a pre-pandemic way of life, but instead to employ whatever tools it takes to keep

...the hospitals become a vector for infection and you lose the frontline people. Or worse — If you need them to handle a second wave of infections, even a smaller

1. Build an army of contact tracers *Every* expert we talked to said it’s important to know exactly where the virus is spreading. The only reliable way to do this

New w/ @TexasTribune: A Texas ER spent $500K on COVID-19 antibody tests. But the tests didn’t work. It’s just one example of how local governments are scrambling to fight the

“We’re not being protected. We don’t have the right equipment. Nurses are getting sick.” This is from a hospital in NY. Our reporters @js_kaplan, @lizziepresser and @mayatmiller have talked to