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Houston Cofield / Bloomberg / Getty Vaccine Refusers Risk Compassion Fatigue
After the horrors that health-care workers have endured during the pandemic, many are struggling to sympathize with people who won’t protect themselves.
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Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / Getty; … Emergency Medicine’s Original Sin
The misperception that paramedics are merely ambulance drivers is everyone’s problem.
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Universal Images Group / Getty Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers
The pandemic was a big social experiment that sent asthma attacks plummeting.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Next Major Challenge to the Affordable Care Act
The law’s opponents have a good chance of winning their next showdown, though it won’t threaten the law as a whole.
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Glasshouse Images / Getty; Adam Maida / The … The Drug That Could Break American Health Care
Aduhelm, the first new Alzheimer’s drug in 18 years, may not work. But states and Medicare might pay billions of dollars for it anyway.
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Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times / Joseph … ‘They Just Feel That They’ve Been Violated’
The COVID-19 crisis is nearing its end. But the nurses and home health aides who saw us through it may never recover.
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Yifei Fang / Getty The Way Out of Brain Fog
One of COVID-19’s most persistent and mysterious problems finally has some treatments.
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Alessandro Grassani / The New York Times / … We Need to Talk About the AstraZeneca Vaccine
For the moment, reports of a very rare, dangerous blood disorder among recipients cannot be ignored.
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Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty COVID-19 Is Different Now
The coronavirus is changing. So is the disease it causes.
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Mike Kai Chen / The New York Times … Long-Haulers Are Pushing the Limits of COVID-19 Vaccines
People with long COVID were left out of vaccine trials. They are now navigating the new shots on their own.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Real Reason Republicans Couldn’t Kill Obamacare
Democrats did the work, Republicans didn’t—and that says a lot about the two parties.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic People Are Keeping Their Vaccines Secret
COVID-19 vaccinations have become a public spectacle, but they touch intensely private questions.
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AFP / Getty How a Well-Meaning Health Policy Created California’s Coronavirus Nightmare
The state’s hyperefficient health-care system runs pretty well—unless a pandemic strikes.
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Photo illustration by Arsh Raziuddin* What the Chaos in Hospitals Is Doing to Doctors
Politicians’ refusal to admit when hospitals are overwhelmed puts a terrible burden on health-care providers.
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Jae C. Hong / AP ‘No One Is Listening to Us’
More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this.
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David Ryder / Getty America’s Poor Health Is an Invitation to Tyranny
The lack of universal care has made the U.S. more vulnerable to Trump’s demagogic appeals.
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Johann Rousselot / laif / Redux Trump’s Doctor Comes From a Uniquely American Brand of Medicine
Osteopathy was founded by a 19th-century healer who believed the body was a self-healing machine.
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Timothy Fadek / Redux Doctors Are Holding Up Their End of the Bargain. Society Is Not.
Sending health-care workers into hospitals with too few masks is a betrayal akin to sending soldiers into battle without armor.
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Ina Jang No One Is Supporting the Doctors
I have ceased to expect appropriate help from administrators, institutions, and the government itself.
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Zoë van Dijk / Quanta Magazine An Unexpected Ally in the War With Bacteria
Scientists have struggled to develop new antibiotics. Enter: the machines.
