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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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How to make sense of the case and hospitalization data as omicron takes off

By Dylan Scott

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The frustrating Covid-19 test reimbursement process is a microcosm of US health care

By Dylan Scott

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6 epidemiologists on how omicron is — and isn’t — changing their holiday plans

By Sigal Samuel

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How omicron broke Covid-19 testing

By Rebecca Heilweil

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Omicron is here. What are your treatment options if you get Covid-19?

By Kelsey Piper

You might get a breakthrough case of Covid-19 this winter. Here’s how to prepare.

By Rachel Wilkerson Miller

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How omicron could impact global progress to curb the pandemic

By Vox Staff

Why omicron could bring the deadliest phase in the pandemic yet

By Umair Irfan

Does it still make sense for vaccinated people with Covid-19 to isolate for 10 days?

By Dylan Scott

Why Covid-19 is always one step ahead of the US response

By Dylan Scott

What you need to know about Biden’s free rapid test program

By Rebecca Heilweil

Could a universal Covid-19 vaccine defeat every variant?

By Umair Irfan
A person reaching across a large number of boxes of Covid-19 tests.

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Am I asymptomatic, or do I just really not want to have Covid-19? A guide.

By Allie Volpe

We’ll never have a normal flu season again

By Dylan Scott

Even Tories are over Boris Johnson’s scandals after “Partygate”

By Ellen Ioanes

The Supreme Court can’t get its story straight on vaccines

By Ian Millhiser

This is what long-term immunity to Covid-19 might look like

By Umair Irfan

The most consistently botched part of the US pandemic response

By Dylan Scott

A syllabus for a new world

By Alissa Wilkinson

Texas shows the dangers of indifference to omicron

By Nicole Narea

Is Covax finally going to vaccinate the world?

By Muizz Akhtar

The lesson America refuses to learn about Covid-19 and the economy

By Emily Stewart

Omicron is exploding. Here’s what to do if you’re exposed.

By Sigal Samuel

Rapid tests, omicron, and you

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why one of the most vaccinated places in America couldn’t avoid omicron

By Nicole Narea

We need to wear better masks

By Ellen Ioanes

The Supreme Court appears ready to slash Biden’s vaccine mandate for workers

By Ian Millhiser

The great population growth slowdown

By Bryan Walsh

The stakes in the Supreme Court’s vaccine cases are even bigger than they seem

By Ian Millhiser

A partisan judge just gave Navy SEALs permission to defy a direct order

By Ian Millhiser

The shape of the omicron wave is becoming clearer

By Dylan Scott

Where have all the truck drivers gone?

By Jen Kirby

Despite omicron, Covid-19 will become endemic. Here’s how.

By Sigal Samuel

22 things we think will happen in 2022

By Dylan Matthews, Kelsey Piper, and 1 more

22 predictions we made in 2021, and the 13 we got right

By Dylan Matthews, Sigal Samuel, and 1 more

Covid-19 surges spark chain reactions that strain US hospitals everywhere

By Dylan Scott

Welcome to Covid-19’s “junior year.” It’s not pretty.

By Eleanor Cummins

Just how much is Trump’s judiciary sabotaging the Biden presidency?

By Ian Millhiser

What happens when omicron hits China

By Jonathan Guyer

How to recognize Covid-19 symptoms from the omicron variant

By Umair Irfan

Omicron is outpacing delta on social media, too

By Shirin Ghaffary

Omicron collides with a struggling global vaccination campaign

By Jen Kirby

What makes the omicron variant so strange and surprising

By Umair Irfan

The Supreme Court showdown over Biden’s vaccine policies, explained

By Ian Millhiser

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