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John J. Custer; The Atlantic The Coronavirus Has One Strategy We Can’t Vaccinate Against
It may be getting better at dodging one of the immune system’s main defenses.
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Getty / Alex Cochran The Risk and Opportunity of Online Fertility Groups
Seeking health advice on the web is precarious. But for some people, internet strangers provide helpful information and emotional support.
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Getty We’re Testing for Monkeypox the Wrong Way
No one should have to wait until they’re covered with sores.
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Kena Betancur / AFP via Getty U.S. Messaging on Monkeypox Is Deeply Flawed
Officials seem unwilling to be direct about who is most at risk of the disease.
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Jerry Cooke / Corbis / Getty Can You Cure Mental Illness? Two Centuries of Trying Says No.
A new book looks at the long and sordid history of psychiatry and its attempt to help those living with mental illness.
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Guillermo Legaria / Getty America’s Public-Health Efforts Have Slowed to a Crawl
Why we’re seeing so little progress not just on vaccines, but even on sunscreen.
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TikTok; The Atlantic When Your Doctor Is on TikTok
On a platform rife with falsehoods, a cohort of health-care professionals has stepped in to correct them.
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Victor J. Blue / The New York Times … It’s a Terrible Idea to Deny Medical Care to Unvaccinated People
Omicron is pushing hospitals to their limit, but the medical system still has an ethical responsibility to all patients—no matter the choices they make.
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Allison Dinner / Bloomberg / Getty Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble
Omicron is inundating a health-care system that was already buckling under the cumulative toll of every previous surge.
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Nathan Howard / Getty Omicron Will Overwhelm America’s Emergency Rooms
Hospitals are already strained, and many health-care workers have little left to give.
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Apu Gomes / AFP / Getty The New COVID Drugs Are a Bigger Deal Than People Realize
Vaccines are amazing, but people who become infected need effective treatments.
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Getty; The Atlantic Even Health-Care Workers With Long COVID Are Being Dismissed
Medical professionals are used to being believed, but as patients, they found that their expertise didn’t matter.
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Juanmonino / Getty; The Atlantic / Gabriela Pesqueira Why Health-Care Workers Are Quitting in Droves
About one in five health-care workers has left their job since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty; The Atlantic The Medical Establishment Embraces Leftist Language
New guidelines urge doctors to talk like social-justice ideologues. Whether patients understand them is beside the point.
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Shelby Knowles / KHN America Stopped Treating Health-Care Workers Like Heroes
Hospital staff say they're facing a violence crisis.
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Daniel Brenner / The New York Times / … How Scrubs Reinforce Sexist Double Standards
Female doctors have always dealt with appearance-related confusion and disrespect. That only got worse during the pandemic.
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Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp Timing Is Everything for Merck’s COVID Pill
The drug, molnupiravir, is named after Thor’s hammer, Mjölnir. But its power depends on reaching the right people, in the right time frame.
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Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg / Getty When ‘Talk to Your Doctor’ Goes So, So Wrong
Vanishingly few people have legitimate reasons to avoid COVID-19 vaccination. Some say their doctors told them not to get vaccinated anyway.
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Getty; Dawid Markiewicz / Getty; The Atlantic Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future
Many people with long COVID feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse.
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Bryan Anselm / Redux I’m a Black Doctor. My Mom Still Won’t Get Vaccinated.
I’m frustrated, but I can’t really blame her. Here’s why.
