Fevered History.

The article reflects the views of author on her experience of programming on the local public-radio station—sober reports punctuated by a cavalcade of experts preaching self-care, and quotidian grime of urban life occasions uneasiness in the city's fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus. Topics include psychological resistance to the new reality in certain quarters in immunological resistance; and number of homeless or food-insecure children in New York City public school system.