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Comfort clothes: Fashion for the self-isolating

In these anxious times, those living in lockdown may favor dressing down, wearing easy, comfortable clothes even while on Zoom calls. Nancy Giles talks with designer Michael Kors and Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan, and writer Laura Lippman about what homebound people are now wearing; how donning a favorite blazer, dress or pair of sneakers can boost confidence. Giles also finds out from Bloomingdale's Sophia Tang what people are now ordering to wear while at home, all the time.

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Why was America unprepared for coronavirus?

News stories of a mysterious novel coronavirus outbreak spreading in Wuhan, China began appearing in America in early January. So, how did we get from those small but worrying early warnings to now, when our nation leads the world, not in managing the crisis, but in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths? Correspondent Martha Teichner talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett ("The Coming Plague"); Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute; and Beth Cameron, who was once in charge of pandemic preparedness for the National Security Council, about the Trump administration's response to COVID-19.

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