Our DC bureau chief on covering a escalating public health crisis, an economic crisis – and a crisis of leadership
I’m heading to the White House in the middle of a global pandemic – not a phrase I ever imagined writing when I was a schoolboy in Britain thinking about a career in journalism. Downtown Washington resembles a deserted film set these days, most of its famed monuments and museums closed. At the White House gates a white tent has been set up; a medical worker zaps me with a device that takes my temperature and gives me the all clear.
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