How are you doing?

A medical staff member rests in front of a fan in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston on June 30 . Go Nakamura/Getty Images

With, you know, all of this.

We’re about 113 days into this pandemic, heading into a holiday weekend unlike any other in recent memory. We’re still learning about the best way to treat COVID-19, and some states are coming around on mask mandates. It’s not necessarily getting any easier. So how are you doing?

Here’s a list of some of the stuff we talked about today:

“Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texans in most counties to wear masks in public” from the Texas Tribune
“Congress Eyes More Spending as Virus Cases Surge and Economy Struggles” from the New York Times
“A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys” also from the New York Times
Twitter’s edit-button troll
“That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief” from the Harvard Business Review

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