THIS STORY IS GRIM, BUT IT ALSO DISCLOSES THAT FRANCE IS CHEATING ON ITS NUMBERS: Coronavirus: The grim crisis in Europe’s care homes. “More than a third of care homes in the Paris region alone are thought to have been affected by coronavirus. But while hospital deaths are recorded in the daily toll of coronavirus, deaths in care homes are not. . . . Few of the cases in France’s retirement homes are ever tested for the virus, once an initial outbreak has been confirmed. But day after day, stories are emerging of double-digit death tolls inside these institutions, now virtually shuttered from the outside world.”

Well, maybe not cheating, exactly: “France is launching a new app to count coronavirus cases inside care homes, and include them in its national totals. France’s most senior health official has said that numbers could spiral as a result.”