This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City, which was once the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, will proceed with its second phase of reopening next week. Interminable as lockdown may have seemed here, it was only on March 13 that President Trump declared the coronavirus a national emergency. No, the first wave isn’t overOn Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence argued in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that “the panic” over a second wave of coronavirus infections was overblown.

Source: New York Times June 18, 2020 22:07 UTC