The NYT is actually covering it in an even more banal and evil way than the NYT pitchbot account satirises it. Like this is the LEAD headline on the app right now. They think the most important thing to note is that it defies a fake republican talking point from ten years ago.

The New York Times has produced one useful chart in its entire existence and it’s this one.

For context I frequently wind up in conversations with fellow Australians about how we totally overreacted to the pandemic.