Post-vaccination Inertia Is Real
Readjusting our ideas about what’s safe is going to take time.
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The CDC Is Still Repeating Its Mistakes
The agency’s new guidelines are too timid and too complicated.
The Pandemic Made Her Sick, Even Before She Caught COVID-19
Headaches, eye pain, nausea—her symptoms began last spring. No one knows exactly why, except that the pandemic is to blame.
The Coming Conflict Between Introverts and Extroverts
When the social floodgates open, not everyone will want to use their newfound freedom in the same way.
The Tyranny of the Female-Orgasm Industrial Complex
What one woman’s quest for sexual satisfaction reveals about desire, hysteria, feminism, and capitalism
The King of AIDS Treatments Is Turning to COVID-19
There are few drugs proven to help people infected with the coronavirus, and it’s giving John James déjà vu.
Podcast: When Can I Take Off My Mask?
The rules need to change after vaccination. But carefully.
Show Your Immune System Some Love
Antibodies are great and all, but macrophages, B cells, and helper T cells deserve some attention too.
We Are Turning COVID-19 Into a Young Person’s Disease
Even as cases drop among vaccinated Americans, the coronavirus still can spread among unvaccinated people—who will be disproportionately children.
The Suicide Wave That Never Was
The notion that lockdowns increased the rate of death by suicide last year has become common knowledge. It’s not backed up by data.