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COVID-19: Five Years Later

America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease

March 11, 2025

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COVID-19: Five Years Later

The Novel I’m Searching For

March 11, 2025

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America Is Botching Measles

Katherine J. Wu

March 7, 2025

Covenant Children's Hospital is pictured from outside the emergency entrance on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.

RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles

February 27, 2025

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COVID-19: Five Years Later

COVID Broke the Rules of Virus Evolution

February 24, 2025

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How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right

February 18, 2025

Young man sitting in the back of a pickup truck, checking his phone, with a Trump campaign sign and the American flag behind him

I’ve Never Seen Parents This Freaked Out About Vaccines

February 13, 2025

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Why the COVID Deniers Won

March 2025 Issue

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What Happens When Bird Flu Gets Worse?

Nicholas Florko

February 11, 2025

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Purging the Government Could Backfire Spectacularly

February 3, 2025

Trump walking in the shadows

What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like

Katherine J. Wu

January 28, 2025

A graphic illustration showing a black-and-white photo of a syringe and a vial over a black-grid background

RFK Jr. Is an Excellent Conspiracy Theorist

January 27, 2025

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What David Lynch Knew About the Weather

January 18, 2025

Photos of David Lynch, and vintage images of cloudy skies

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How Worried to Be About Bird Flu

January 15, 2025

Swabbing a rooster to test for avian influenza

MAGA’s Demon-Haunted World

January 15, 2025

A Secret Way to Fight Off Stomach Bugs

January 14, 2025

Grainy black and white footage of someone washing there hands with soap, then women washing their hands at a communal sink in a bathroom

America’s Bird-Flu Luck Has Officially Run Out

December 19, 2024

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Everyone Agrees Americans Aren’t Healthy

Nicholas Florko

November 25, 2024

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Revenge of the COVID Contrarians

November 25, 2024

RFK Jr's face behind stripes of translucent red circles

We’re About to Find Out How Much Americans Like Vaccines

November 20, 2024

A vaccine syringe swings back and forth between red and blue.

Democrats Deserved to Lose

November 8, 2024

The site of an empty Kamala Harris rally after the event has ended

How Donald Trump Won Everywhere

November 6, 2024

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Public-Health Officials Should Have Been Talking About Their Sex Parties the Whole Time

Kristen V. Brown

September 20, 2024

photo of Jay Varma

Why Didn’t Facing a Common Enemy Bring Us Together?

Francis S. Collins

September 15, 2024

A virus with a red person and a blue person running from it in opposite directions

It Matters If It’s COVID

Rachel Gutman-Wei

September 4, 2024

A hand drops liquid from a dropper onto a COVID test.

America Is Doubling Down on Sewer Surveillance

August 26, 2024

a sewerpipe forms the outline of a pill shape, with one side colored in red

How Risky Is COVID for an 81-Year-Old?

Rachel Gutman-Wei

July 17, 2024

President Joe Biden speaks in front of microphones.

The First Three Months

July/August 2024 Issue

How Much Worse Would a Bird-Flu Pandemic Be?

Katherine J. Wu

June 7, 2024

a triptych showing ducks, a vaccine syringe, and pigs

America’s Infectious-Disease Barometer Is Off

Katherine J. Wu

April 30, 2024

Cows graze on a dairy farm

It’s Not the Economy. It’s the Pandemic.

George Makari and Richard A. Friedman

March 21, 2024

Collage of Donald Trump, Joe Biden, a masked health-care worker, a person protesting vaccine requirements, a person holding their head in their hands, coronavirus particles, and a jagged arrow pointing downward

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America’s False Virus Equivalence

March 6, 2024

A white gloved hand holds a COVID-19 virus

Pfizer Couldn’t Pay for Marketing This Good

March 6, 2024

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The Pandemic’s ‘Ghost Architecture’ Is Still Haunting Us

February 29, 2024

An illustration of a tattered sticker with footprints and the text "keep your distance"

Why Are We Still Flu-ifying COVID?

Katherine J. Wu

February 28, 2024

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Why California and Oregon Broke With the CDC

Juliette Kayyem

February 4, 2024

a mask lying in the street