Today's news:
President Trump claims he knew COVID-19 was a pandemic all along, even though he had a strangely ineffective way of showing it.
- COVID-19 has caused a food security crisis as entire industries lay off vulnerable workers.
- The University of Illinois has cancelled graduation, devastating thousands of seniors.
- The World Health Organisation recommends avoiding Ibuprofen to treat COVID-19 symptoms; use paracetamol instead.
- Bob Cesca in Slate asks, "Why do we keep electing Republicans? They're no good at this."
- China has expelled 13 journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, in retaliation for the US expelling Chinese reporters earlier.
- Most of the Spring Gala Season in Chicago has been cancelled. (The Apollo Chorus moved its fundraiser to July 17th, crossing our fingers that the worst will be over by then.)
- Joe Biden won the most delegates in three big states (including Illinois) yesterday, making him all but certain to be the Democratic nominee for president.
Finally, and not related even a little to COVID-19, Olga Khazan writes in the Atlantic about "the perks of being a weirdo."