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Epidemics and Pandemics

America’s Public-Health Efforts Have Slowed to a Crawl

Conor Friedersdorf

July 6, 2022

Hand wearing a medical glove holding a vaccine

Hybrid Work Is Doomed

July 6, 2022

An octopus arm grabbing an office chair

The Thin Red Lines

July 5, 2022

A small sample of my tests

The Conversation

Letter: The NIH Has Responded Forcefully to COVID-19

July 5, 2022

A lab technician tests blood samples.

Don’t Worry, It’s Not COVID

July 1, 2022

The New First Date

June 29, 2022

GIF of two people kissing from two separate screens

How the Rest of the World Is Doing RTO

June 29, 2022

An illustration of a filing cabinet in a reclining chair

This Fall Will Be a Vaccination Reboot

Katherine J. Wu

June 28, 2022

a health worker administers a vaccine to a person sitting in a chair

Coronavirus: COVID-19

America Is Sliding Into the Long Pandemic Defeat

June 27, 2022

A coronavirus on a red stop sign

Five COVID Numbers That Don’t Make Sense Anymore

Katherine J. Wu

June 23, 2022

Question marks with a COVID virus as the dot

The Biggest Disruption in the History of American Education

Meira Levinson and Daniel Markovits

June 23, 2022

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Book Recommendations

The Books Swallowed by the Black Hole of the Coronavirus

June 15, 2022

A painting of books lying on a table

Long COVID Could Be a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’

June 15, 2022

Fractured photo-collage of a woman in seeming discomfort

What Returning to China Taught Me About China

Michael Schuman

June 14, 2022

A human figure is surrounded by giant swabs.

The Friendship Files

The Six Forces That Fuel Friendship

June 10, 2022

A woman sits in a chair with a laptop on her knees. Behind her is a collage of colorful silhouettes of friends.

A Negative COVID Test Has Never Been So Meaningless

Katherine J. Wu

June 10, 2022

a series of blue coronavirus splotches, the last of which is pink

Monkeypox Could Be Nothing—Or It Could Be the Next Syphilis

Rachel Gutman-Wei

June 9, 2022

Photo of airline passengers passing a monkeypox virus information screen

Vaccines for the Littlest Kids Have Already Flopped

Katherine J. Wu

June 9, 2022

an illustration of a child's swing suspended from a vaccine needle

Book Recommendations

The Thin Line Between Sickness and Health

Joseph Osmundson

June 8, 2022

An illustration of a orange human figure with floating colorful shapes that suggest viruses superimposed on the image

Don’t Wait to Get Your Kid Vaccinated

Katherine J. Wu

June 7, 2022

a child getting a COVID vaccine

The Missing Part of America’s Pandemic Response

Cary P. Gross and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

June 5, 2022

A researcher examining vials in a lab

Why This COVID Wave Feels Different

June 3, 2022

An image of rapid tests rotating

America In Person

Standing Now Counts as Exercise

June 1, 2022

An illustration of a Zoom workout

How to Think About Personal Risk When COVID Case Data Can’t Be Trusted

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

May 29, 2022

Illustration of a person walking across a bar graph like a tightrope.

The Atlantic Daily: When You Get COVID Again and Again

Katherine J. Wu

May 27, 2022

A white envelope on a red background with a red Atlantic "A"

You Are Going to Get COVID Again … And Again … And Again

Katherine J. Wu

May 27, 2022

Collage with an image of a women blowing her nose, repeated 7 times

Rebound COVID Is Just the Start of Paxlovid’s Mysteries

Rachel Gutman-Wei

May 26, 2022

Black-and-white photo of Paxlovid pills

The Unique Challenge of Raising Teenagers Right Now

Molly Jong-Fast

May 24, 2022

Three teenagers wearing masks look at their phones in a park

Vaccines Are Still Mostly Blocking Severe Disease

Katherine J. Wu

May 23, 2022

a mountain with a coronavirus particle peeking over it

I Feel Safest in My Hospital

May 22, 2022

A blurred photo of a white face mask lying discarded

So, Have You Heard About Monkeypox?

May 19, 2022

Some black smudges on a green background with white blobs

How the Pinch of Capitalism Could Change Mothering

Xochitl Gonzalez

May 18, 2022

Angela Garbes; image: Elizabeth Rudge

What COVID Hospitalization Numbers Are Missing

May 18, 2022

Dr. Sylvie de Souza at the emergency room in Brooklyn Hospital Center

America In Person

The Miraculous Comeback of the Field Trip

Rowan Moore Gerety

May 18, 2022

Students on a bus feeding a giraffe at Out of Africa in Camp Verde, Arizona, on May 6, 2022

How Public Health Failed America

May 15, 2022

Sign in a subway station that urges riders to wear a mask

The Clearest Account Yet of How Trump’s Team Botched the Pandemic

Richard J. Tofel

May 13, 2022

A black-and-white photo of Deborah Birx in the foreground, looking down, as Donald Trump stands at a lectern in the blurry background