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It may take months or years to develop an effective treatment for Covid-19. In the meantime, the U.S. needs to start thinking realistically about how to reopen the economy even if the pandemic continues, writes @avik in this week's Saturday Essay.https://on.wsj.com/3bNqNcN 

The NFL hosted its first-ever “virtual” draft Thursday night. Joe Burrow went No. 1. Jerry Jones dialed in from a…wait, is he on a yacht? A review by @JasonGay :https://on.wsj.com/2S57vYd 

Governments in Latin America, already struggling to contain the coronavirus from spreading in their countries, are now contending with a new challenge: importing additional cases of the pathogen from migrants deported by the U.S.https://on.wsj.com/3aCDEgr 

From @WSJopinion: Employers need to rehire workers to get their loans forgiven. One problem: Unemployment is paying out more than work, write @RepChipRoy and Emily Williams Knighthttps://on.wsj.com/3cHVr7h 

Many doctors and hospitals are routinely prescribing antimalaria drugs for the coronavirus, while other patients sign up for studies exploring whether they truly helphttps://on.wsj.com/3bBV0uV 

The types of trips Americans take may be very different this summer: domestic over international, driving over flying, and second homes or rentals over hotelshttps://on.wsj.com/358Bh3J 

“I could not believe how irresponsible the use of technology is in voting,” says election-security expert Harri Hurstihttps://on.wsj.com/2VTGiZP 

Streets were quiet in Georgia Friday as many shops remained closed, but some nonessential businesses took advantage of easing restrictions to reopenhttps://on.wsj.com/3cIzEMI 

A dispute with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro led Justice Minister Sérgio Moro to resign, the second major cabinet departure in a week as the country’s leadership struggles with the coronavirus outbreakhttps://on.wsj.com/3bCMKuS 

Worries are mounting about the ability of Europe’s financial system, in particular its fragile banks, to make it through the coronavirus crisis unscathedhttps://on.wsj.com/2zo0tHC 

“Being 32 and under your parents’ roof—it’s strange.” Coronavirus has brought some young adults back to their childhood bedrooms.https://on.wsj.com/3aAH6YE 

The pandemic has hurt the Catholic Church’s finances, threatening its charitable activities and leading bishops and parish priests to slash expenses and seek funds elsewherehttps://on.wsj.com/2VV6GT3 

The Treasury Department is poised to send the second major wave of stimulus payments to people who have been waitinghttps://on.wsj.com/2S678wz 

A judge approved Facebook’s $5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over privacy violations, the agency says—overruling objections that the deal didn’t adequately punish the companyhttps://on.wsj.com/3aCGoKw 

From @WSJopinion: The trouble started in mid-March when "herd immunity," previously the tacit or acknowledged endgame for most of the world, became a toxic phrase, writes @JosephSternberghttps://on.wsj.com/2yCoKcG 

Oil-storage facilities are filling up at a “monster rate,” as producers race to shut down wells in face of crumbling demandhttps://on.wsj.com/2zqQJMN