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President told them that, you know, were behind you, but you buy all this stuff yourselves. and gretchen whitmer, the governor of michigan, told me she realized at that point that in her state, they didnt have enough ppe for the next shift. it wasnt a matter of weeks or something. they were out. and it was up to the governors to find a way to get all these supplies, and they were -- wound up competing with each other even sometimes when they secured those things, they were seized by the federal ...

The 2021 ceremony recognized the magazine’s coverage of the pandemic and the political upheaval of the past year.

A Dstl senior scientist and a Sopra Steria solutions architect have been recognised in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Dr Christopher Timperley and Lawrence Wright received awards for their respective areas of scientific contribution to global and UK safety.

Let’s take a spin around the globe. This week’s key theme: Is the new age of finance decentralized?

The Pulitzer winner from Dallas offers peerless reporting and incisive critique.

"The Plague Year" by Lawrence Wright; Alfred A. Knopf (336 pages, $28) ——— What hath Lawrence Wright wrought? For decades the New Yorker staff writer has churned out high-caliber journalism;

You can wear it. im not going to wear it, but you can wear it. so instead of being a promoter became a saboteur of the very plan he was announcing. >> do you ever imagine how many lives could have been saved? >> i think about it a lot, and its very disturbing to consider that hundreds of thousands of lives might have been spared if there had been a higher standard of leadership in charge of this effort. but, you know, we were bound to suffer. every nation has suffered, but some have suffered far...

So the coronavirus is far from over, but there is attempts to rewrite the narrative, some coming from the president and his allies, some calling on dr. anthony fauci to be fired. joining us now, staff writer mic lawrence wright. lawrence, im such a fan of your book. you touch on in your new book where you see people like the former president touting dr. fauci saying he should be fired, painting him as the big villain in this entire pandemic. i wonder what you make of that? >> i think its totally...

The United States should have been the country best prepared to handle a pandemic. Instead it became the world's worst affected country - with more than 590,000 lives lost to Covid.

In his account of the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the New Yorker writer reports the killers are off the leash