How future generations will judge humanity's performance against the coronavirus
Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post
March 4, 2021
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1of3Fresh graves at a cemetery Nov. 15 in Kemerovo, Russia.photo for The Washington Post by Arthur Bondar.Show MoreShow Less
2of3A coronavirus patient in the ICU of a hospital in Chula Vista, Calif., on May 22.Washington Post photo by Melina Mara.Show MoreShow Less
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On the wooded site of a former golf course in suburban Washington, archivists are building a global time capsule of the pandemic. The digital repository - to be housed at the National Library of Medicine, a Cold War-era fortress appropriately built for fearful times - holds 30 million documents from 9,000 sources, with links to similar troves from Beijing to Paris.