Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 20, 2020

Megan Pfeiffer slept in a room above her paramedics station during the first weeks of the emergency. New York has since put up many first responders in hotels so they don't risk taking the virus home. Foreign Correspondent: Bruno Federico

Karishma Vyas in New York City, ABC News Online: Behind enemy lines

At the height of New York’s coronavirus outbreak, we followed the city’s paramedics into the homes and apartments of the sick and dying.

If hospitals are the front line in New York’s war on COVID-19, paramedics are fighting deep behind enemy lines, inside the homes and apartments of infected New Yorkers.

The enemy they are fighting is in the very breath their patients exhale, an invisible menace filling the room around them. It clings to their equipment and contaminates their clothes, hair, goggles, gowns and shoes. For how long, they don’t know.

As first responders, New York’s paramedics and EMTs — emergency medical technicians — don’t know who is infected and who is not.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 20, 2020

It Is Important to Know This Virus’s Origins -- Jim Geraghty, National Review

Did coronavirus really originate in a Chinese laboratory? -- Fabian Schmidt, DW

China Is Losing the Coronavirus Narrative -- Jamil Anderlini, Financial Times

Don’t Bet on China -- John McLaughlin, Ozy

Without a central plan, Europe risks a weakened coronavirus recovery -- Mario Calvo-Platero, The Hill

Coronavirus, the media and credibility -- Martin Muno, DW

How could coronavirus affect wars in the Arab world? -- Ramy Allahoum, Al JAzeera

Mid-April in America is an unforgiving time, and now this -- Ted Anthony, AP

COVID-19 is not “like a nuclear attack” but another kind of virus might be -- Charlie Dunlap, J.D., Lawfire ·

COVID-19 Gut Check Time Approaches -- Victor David Hanson, National Review

The Great U.S.-China Divorce Has Arrived -- James Jay Carafano, National Interest

U.S. Foreign Policy: Between Scylla and Charybdis -- Mark Helprin, National Review

Oil Below Zero -- Catherine Ngai et al, Bloomberg

The Oil Market’s Old Paradigms Are Dead -- Frida Ghitis, World Politics Review

Historic oil crash a product of futures market under stress -- France 24