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Coronavirus

Evidence-based explanations of the Covid-19 pandemic, including how it started, how it might end, and how to protect yourself and others.

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4 questions about long Covid experts wish they could answer

By Keren Landman

What the latest Covid-19 variants and subvariants mean for the pandemic

By Umair Irfan

Pandemic school reopenings were not just about politics

By Rachel M. Cohen

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Smallpox used to kill millions of people every year. Here’s how humans beat it.

By Kelsey Piper

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“A lot of unnecessary loss of life”: The White House’s dire warning on Covid-19 funding

By Dylan Scott

Stronger public health systems and uniform messaging are critical to fight Covid-19

By Natasha Ishak

Why the FDA rejected fluvoxamine as a Covid-19 drug

By Kelsey Piper

The developing Covid crisis in Beijing, explained

By Muizz Akhtar

Bill Gates knows philanthropy alone can’t solve inequality

By Whizy Kim

Carrick Flynn may be 2022’s unlikeliest candidate. Here’s why he’s running.

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg and Dylan Matthews

The major blind spot in Bill Gates’s pandemic prevention plan

By Whizy Kim

Can we stop the next pandemic by seeking out deadly viruses in the wild?

By Kelsey Piper

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How many people have died from the Covid-19 crisis?

By Umair Irfan

3 pandemic metrics that could tell us what’s next

By Dylan Scott

The faulty foundation of our new post-pandemic normal

By Dylan Scott

How to think about masking on planes, trains, and buses right now

By Rachel Wilkerson Miller

Shanghai’s zero Covid nightmare

By Zack Beauchamp

Welcome to the choose-your-own-adventure phase of the pandemic

By Dylan Scott

The Trump judge’s opinion striking down the airplane mask mandate is a legal disaster

By Ian Millhiser

How China’s zero-Covid policy is failing Shanghai

By Ellen Ioanes

It’s time to think outside the mask mandate

By Keren Landman

The CDC’s new Covid-19 guidelines are facing their first test with BA.2

By Keren Landman

The secrets hidden in sewage

By Dylan Scott

They warned about pandemics before Covid-19. Now they have a $100 billion plan to stop the next one.

By Dylan Matthews

What the media needs to get right in the next pandemic

By Kelsey Piper

Can we 3D print a better face mask?

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

How to future-proof your life from pandemics and other threats

By Sigal Samuel

The good and bad news about the current Covid-19 wave

By Dylan Scott

A survey on global mental well-being shows that the kids are not all right

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

America needs more doctors and nurses to survive the next pandemic

By Dylan Scott

What immunocompromised people need to know right now

By Keren Landman

How sewage can warn us about the next pandemic

By Muizz Akhtar

How to test and trace a virus we haven’t discovered yet

By Dylan Matthews

Congress is cutting corners on Covid-19 funding. We may pay for it later.

By Dylan Scott

Why experts are terrified of a human-made pandemic — and what we can do to stop it

By Kelsey Piper

Finding the next pandemic virus before it finds us

By Umair Irfan

Pandemic-Proof

By Vox Staff

We need to be developing vaccines for the next pandemic — right now

By Dylan Matthews

The Biden administration is ending a controversial border policy

By Nicole Narea

Who should get a fourth Covid-19 vaccine shot — and when?

By Dylan Scott

Covid-19 safety doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Here’s how to think about it going forward.

By Rachel Wilkerson Miller

Why well-qualified medical school graduates can’t get jobs — despite doctor shortages

By Keren Landman

How Hong Kong’s pandemic success story turned into a nightmare

By Umair Irfan

Congress’s epic pandemic funding failure

By Dylan Matthews