After a long stint embedded in his home office, Jeffrey Katzenberg felt almost ready to take a break. He was looking forward, he said on a Zoom call in late March, to watching more of "Tiger King," the wacko documentary series from Netflix about big-cat trainers behaving badly, which was currently captivating large numbers of homebound viewers. 

At Lucille Ellson's home, inside her brimming drawers, are hints of how the present mirrors the past.

I can't be the only one nervously lifting the back of my (scrupulously washed) hand to my forehead for quick assurance I've eluded fever for another day.

Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx walked side-by-side in the 1980s on hospital rounds, watching young men die of a mysterious disease that had no cure.