I Was Allergic to Cats. Until Suddenly, I Wasn’t.
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What Doctors Still Don’t Understand About Long COVID
Even mild COVID-19 is at least correlated with a startlingly wide spectrum of seemingly every illness. We need a much better taxonomy to address people’s suffering.
Warning Signs About the First Post-pandemic Winter
It may not be as bad as last year’s … but it certainly won’t be good.
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The Pandemic’s Legacy Is Already Clear
All of this will happen again.
Effective Altruism’s Philosopher King Just Wants to Be Practical
“Somehow people feel like unless you’re doing the most extreme version of your views, then it’s not justified,” Will MacAskill says.
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When’s the Perfect Time to Get a Flu Shot?
Experts can’t agree.
Long COVID Has Forced a Reckoning for One of Medicine’s Most Neglected Diseases
Only a couple dozen doctors specialize in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Now their knowledge could be crucial to treating millions more patients.
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The Glory of Feeling Fine
People seem cursed to take being well for granted. Can we change?
The ‘End’ of COVID Is Still Far Worse Than We Imagined
Even now, the coronavirus is killing three times as many people as the flu.
Fauci Addresses ‘The Pandemic Is Over’
President Biden’s controversial remarks, Fauci says, are a matter of “semantics.”