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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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What can the world learn from China’s “zero-Covid” lockdown?

By Rachel DuRose

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Were bivalent boosters worth it?

By Keren Landman

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Operation Warp Speed was a huge success. So why is the US turning away from it?

By Kelsey Piper

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How the latest Covid-19 variant is shaping the course of the pandemic

By Umair Irfan

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Xi Jinping has abandoned zero-Covid. What happens now?

By Ellen Ioanes

22 predictions we made in 2022, and the 6 we got wrong

By Dylan Matthews, Kelsey Piper, and 2 more

Why are American lives getting shorter?

By Siobhan McDonough

One of our best Covid-19 treatments doesn’t work anymore. What now?

By Umair Irfan

Ron DeSantis’s vaccine “investigation” is all about beating Trump

By Dylan Scott

China’s health system isn’t ready for the end of “zero Covid”

By Dylan Scott
Masked pedestrians walk past a US flag in a streetfront window in New York City on December 12, 2022.

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China’s Covid narrative is backfiring

By Jen Kirby

How “zero-Covid” changed China — and the world

By Kelsey Piper

What makes China’s wave of protests different this time

By Jonathan Guyer

The wave of protests testing China’s zero-Covid policy, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

How to make Covid the last pandemic

By Kelsey Piper

Will America continue to turn away from vaccines?

By Yasmin Tayag

Going home for the holidays? Boost, mask, and test beforehand.

By Allie Volpe

Your free pandemic health perks are on the way out

By Umair Irfan

How to read a controversial preprint paper on Covid’s origins

By Kelsey Piper

Our buildings are making us sick

By Keren Landman

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Zeynep Tufekci has been consistently ahead of the curve on Covid-19

By Siobhan McDonough

Oops, we forgot to fix the supply chain

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why do labs keep making dangerous viruses?

By Kelsey Piper

The best thing you can do to quash a deadly Covid-19 surge this winter

By Umair Irfan

A wave of anti-vaccine legislation is sweeping the United States

By Dylan Scott

The child care crisis just keeps getting worse 

By Rachel M. Cohen

When, why, and how to get a new Covid-19 booster shot

By Keren Landman and Umair Irfan

New Covid-19 vaccine boosters are coming

By Umair Irfan

Why Covid-19 death rates remain stubbornly flat

By Umair Irfan

The two big pandemic investments we still need to make

By Keren Landman

Why monkeypox is a repeat of the data mistakes made with Covid-19

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

School vaccine mandates for Covid-19 are not happening

By Rachel M. Cohen

Should you get another Covid-19 vaccine booster now or wait for the new shots?

By Umair Irfan and Keren Landman

President Biden has rebound Covid. How risky is that?

By Vox Staff

You still need to tell your friends if you get Covid

By Allie Volpe

The key to universal Covid-19 vaccines lies in your bones

By Umair Irfan

The pandemic impulse purchases we grew to hate

By Emily Stewart

During Covid, most governments just gave people money

By Siobhan McDonough

We’ve all got Covid-19 fatigue, but BA.5 shows it’s not over

By Ellen Ioanes

President Biden just tested positive for Covid-19. What happens now?

By Dylan Scott and Li Zhou

BA.5 doesn’t care that you just had Covid-19

By Umair Irfan

Why BA.5 is cause for concern, but not alarm. Yet.

By Keren Landman

Just about everyone in America is finally eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine. Now what?

By Umair Irfan

The Aftermath

By Vox Staff