How Big Pharma Is Meddling in the COVID-19 Crisis

[View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair HIVE PS]( How Big Pharma Is Meddling in the COVID-19 Crisis Good Saturday morning, dear reader! As ever, please forgive the interruption as you ponder Hipparchus’s more obscure formulas, say, or perhaps absorb the teachings of Eudoxus of Cnidus. But we simply couldn’t deprive you of the latest episode of Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan’s newly refurbished Inside the Hive podcast, or Diana Falzone’s chilling reporting on the ways big pharma is pressuring researchers racing for a coronavirus cure. We hope you are enjoying what you’re reading (and listening to). And don’t forget to [subscribe to Vanity Fair.]( Joe Hagan, Emily Jane Fox [Chris Matthews: To Win, Joe Biden Must Prove Himself]( [In an exclusive interview, the former host of Hardball breaks down the 2020 race, and addresses his exit from MSNBC.]( [Listen]( From the Archive: Mark Hertsgaard [While Washington Slept]( [The Queen of England is afraid. International CEOs are nervous. And the scientific establishment is loud and clear. If global warming isn’t halted, devastating sea-level rises will be inevitable by 2100. So how did this virtual certainty get labeled a “liberal hoax” in the U.S.? Try the same tactics Big Tobacco used to deny the dangers of smoking. As businesses, governments, and climatologists around the globe call for action, Mark Hertsgaard reveals exactly how serious the threat has become—and who persuaded the American people there is no crisis.]( [Read More]( Diana Falzone [“I Take That as a Threat”: Big Pharma Is Meddling in the Race for a COVID-19 Treatment]( [A Yale researcher poised to start a crucial clinical trial received an ominous email from a pharmaceutical company. “There is undoubtedly a financial motivation,” he said—and there could be millions on the line.]( [Read More]( [ELSEWHERE] [The Day Everything Changed]( [From Wired]( [Read More]( [The New York You Knew Is Gone]( [From Gen]( [Read More]( [My Restaurant Was My Life]( [From the New York Times Magazine]( [Read More]( [COVID Complacence]( [From The Baffler]( [Read More]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( This e-mail was sent to you by HIVE PS. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2020.One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.