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By JOEL ACHENBACH, ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA AND FRANCES STEAD SELLERS | The Washington Post | Published: March 9, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. New Year's Eve 2019: Ian Lipkin, a famed Columbia University epidemiologist, is having dinner with his wife and a fellow scientist. He gets a confidential phone call from a highly placed source in China: There's a cluster of pneumonia-like illnesses in th...

That virus would slowly reveal its secrets — and proceed to shut down much of the planet, killing more than 2.5 million people in the most disruptive global health disaster since the influenza pandemic of 1918.

by Janey Wong • Mar 1, 2021 at 10:00 am “A Tequila Drink” lets you know exactly what you’re in for. Janey Wong One of my college roommates used to throw in the phrase “it is what it is” with mock seriousness at any opportunity he got. It became the type of (unfunny) inside joke where you roll your eyes but can’t help but smile in spite of yourself. It sprang into my head the second I spotted the simply named “A Tequila Drink” at Bantam Tavern. The cheeky straight-up-ness of the name had already sold me, but the list of ingredients de...

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped revive the autopsy. When the coronavirus first arrived in U.S. hospitals, doctors could only guess as to what was causing the strange constellation of symptoms. What could explain why patients were losing their sense of smell and taste, developing skin rashes, struggling to breathe and reporting memory loss, on top of flu-like coughs and aches? At hospital morgues, pathologists were busily dissecting the disease’s first victims — and finding some answers. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and wha...

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped revive the autopsy.