Last Sunday in Tampa, Florida, the Pentecostal pastor and conspiracy theorist Rodney Howard-Browne conducted two services for full houses at his River church. The closely packed audience spent hours together taking in hymns and Howard-Browne’s extended sermon, even as the state implemented quarantine for New Yorkers, and projections estimated that Florida’s coronavirus death toll would […]

President Trump considered allowing the novel coronavirus to “wash over” the US, The Washington Post reported Saturday. At the time some experts believed that the best way to deal with the crisis was to allow “herd immunity” to build. But Trump’s top scientific adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, warned the president that the policy would mean “many […]