Coronavirus

Coronavirus

Evidence-based explanations of the coronavirus crisis, from how it started to how it might end to how to protect yourself and others.

Why Merck’s Covid-19 pill molnupiravir could be so important

By Umair Irfan

The best- and worst-case scenarios for Covid-19 this winter

By Dylan Scott

Recode

Supply chain havoc is getting worse — just in time for holiday shopping

By Rebecca Heilweil

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Making sense of the recent Covid-19 spike

By Dylan Scott

How the risk of Covid-19 for kids compares to other dangers

By German Lopez

Some vaccinated people have gotten Covid-19. That’s no reason to panic.

By Umair Irfan

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Why people who don’t trust vaccines embrace unproven drugs

By Dylan Scott

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The new guidelines for Covid-19 booster shots, explained

By Dylan Scott

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Does everybody need a booster shot?

By Dylan Scott September 24

Florida’s mysterious Covid-19 surge

By German Lopez September 23

A simple solution to endless school quarantines

By Anna North September 23

It’s time to stop describing lifesaving health care as “elective”

By Andréa Becker September 20

The summer that wasn’t

By Eleanor Cummins September 20

The dubious rise of ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment, explained

By Kelsey Piper September 17

The pandemic has created a nation of insomniacs

By Anna North September 16

Americans are dying because no hospital will take them

By Dylan Scott September 14

CDC study: Unvaccinated people are 11 times more likely to die of Covid-19

By Ellen Ioanes September 11

Are Biden’s new vaccine requirements legal?

By Ian Millhiser September 11

Silicon Valley wants you to know Theranos isn’t Silicon Valley

By Rebecca Heilweil September 10

The US was a world leader in vaccination. What went wrong?

By Dylan Scott September 9

“Neoliberalism has really ruptured”: Adam Tooze on the legacy of 2020

By Zack Beauchamp September 9

America needs to decide how much Covid-19 risk it will tolerate

By German Lopez September 7

What an enormous global study can tell us about feeling better during the pandemic

By Brian Resnick September 6

More Americans are taking jobs without employer benefits like health care or paid vacation

By Rani Molla September 3

Service workers now have another thankless job: Checking vaccine statuses

By Rebecca Heilweil September 2

You can buy stuff online, but getting it is another story

By Terry Nguyen September 2

Why America can’t fix its Covid-19 testing problems

By Dylan Scott September 1

How safe is it for kids to go to school during delta?

By Anna North September 1

Why false claims about Covid-19 vaccines and infertility are so powerful

By Anna North August 30

Should vaccinated people worry about long Covid?

By German Lopez August 30

Hurricane Ida could ravage the Covid-strained Gulf Coast

By Ellen Ioanes August 28

The lab leak hypothesis — true or not — should teach us a lesson

By Umair Irfan August 27

How a cheap antidepressant emerged as a promising Covid-19 treatment

By Kelsey Piper August 26

4 lessons from the early pandemic that no longer apply

By Sigal Samuel August 25

How Florida’s massive Covid-19 spike got so bad

By Dylan Scott August 25

What full FDA approval for Covid-19 vaccines really means

By Umair Irfan August 23

Biden backs school districts in fight against GOP mask mandate bans

By Cameron Peters August 21

What we actually know about the vaccines and the delta variant

By Dylan Scott August 20

School boards are in open revolt against Ron DeSantis’s anti-mask crusade

By Ian Millhiser August 20

Some companies are mandating vaccines — but not for front-line workers

By Emily Stewart August 19

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The long road to India’s unparalleled pandemic catastrophe

India’s health system was broken. Then the delta surge arrived.

By Dylan Scott, Pamposh Raina, and 1 more August 19

Why no one knows how bad Facebook’s vaccine misinformation problem is

By Shirin Ghaffary August 16

Why it’s so hard to be a nurse in America, according to two nurses

By Katherine Harmon Courage August 16

The Texas GOP’s war on governing

By Nicole Narea August 14

How Ron DeSantis’s Covid response became the model of what not to do

By Aaron Rupar August 13

We have to accept some risk of Covid-19

By German Lopez August 13

The pandemic changed the trajectory of America’s overdose and suicide crises

By Dylan Scott August 12

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