President and first lady Melania Trump for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes , he announced Friday morning. With any case of Covid-19 — including the president’s — one of the first questions that ought to be asked: Who else has the infected person been in contact with?This question is critical: The virus tends to spread , through close personal contact, and, in some poorly ventilated indoor environments, The president could be part of a large chain of transmission both in and outside the White House. Knowing who he and his close contacts — as well as other White House staff who have tested...…President and first lady Melania Trump for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes , he announced Friday morning. With any case of Covid-19 — including the president’s — one of the first questions that ought to be asked: Who else has the infected person been in contact with?This question is critical: The virus tends to spread , through close personal contact, and, in some poorly ventilated indoor environments, The president could be part of a large chain of transmission both in and outside the White House. Knowing who he and his close contacts — as well as other White House staff who have tested...WW…

First-person essays and interviews with unique perspectives on complicated issues.Istarlin Abdi Halane was thrilled when she found out last year that she’d been chosen to resettle in the United States.“Maybe after all, my dream is really valid and it’s going to come true,” she thought.The dream had been a long time coming. Abdi Halane, 28, fled war in her native Somalia as a child. She’d spent most of her life in Kakuma, a refugee camp in Kenya: marrying at 15, a mother of two by 20, divorced by 25. All that time, waiting to find out where she’d be able to build her life.Finally she got an...…First-person essays and interviews with unique perspectives on complicated issues.Istarlin Abdi Halane was thrilled when she found out last year that she’d been chosen to resettle in the United States.“Maybe after all, my dream is really valid and it’s going to come true,” she thought.The dream had been a long time coming. Abdi Halane, 28, fled war in her native Somalia as a child. She’d spent most of her life in Kakuma, a refugee camp in Kenya: marrying at 15, a mother of two by 20, divorced by 25. All that time, waiting to find out where she’d be able to build her life.Finally she got an...WW…