
Dylan Scott
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Dylan Scott


Three systemic failures that explain the coronavirus’s terrible toll in US nursing homes.


America’s institutional racism explains both Covid-19’s toll and police violence.


Protests erupted in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Detroit, and around the country.

Protests against George Floyd’s death and police brutality, in photos.

The protests will eventually end. But state-sanctioned violence against black Americans won’t.


Black people make up a disproportionate share of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the state, but not deaths.


Three important takeaways from the latest US coronavirus case counts.

The official toll, almost certainly an undercount, is the highest in the world.


Death rates can be the byproduct of lots of testing — and a little randomness.


Stay-at-home orders and closing restaurants slowed Covid-19’s spread in the US, new study shows.