An Airport Nail Salon on the Hunt For Covid Variants

Illustrator: Carolina Moscoso

Good morning, it’s Riley in New York. I’m here to tell you that an airport mani-pedi chain has become the frontline of US Covid variant detection. But first...

“Every movie that you’ve ever seen about a pandemic is set in the airport,” Ezra Ersnt tells me as we discuss sci-fi films like “Contagion” and HBO’s “Station Eleven.”