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Covid-19

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

Health

More young, healthy people should be getting Paxlovid when they get Covid

By Keren Landman

Policy

Another Covid-19 winter is coming. Here’s how to prepare.

By Dylan Scott

Technology

How Covid misinformation stayed one step ahead of Facebook

By A.W. Ohlheiser

Future Perfect

The dangers of virus hunting

By Kelsey Piper

Science

New Covid vaccines are coming out. The CDC wants you to get one.

By Rachel DuRose

Covid is on the rise again, but it’s different now

By Keren Landman September 7

The US has new Covid-19 variants on the rise. Meet Eris and Fornax.

By Rachel DuRose August 30

You still need to tell your friends if you get Covid

By Allie Volpe August 10

It’s time to close the gene synthesis loophole that could lead to a human-made pandemic

By Kelsey Piper July 27

RFK Jr.’s fringe presidential candidacy, explained

By Nicole Narea June 22

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

How AI could spark the next pandemic

By Kelsey Piper June 21

A Covid outbreak at a CDC conference is ironic. But is it a big deal?

By Keren Landman May 5

Why the world should celebrate Smallpox Eradication Day

By Kelsey Piper May 3

Can a 50-year-old treaty still keep the world safe from the changing threat of bioweapons?

By Jen Kirby April 28

How Ron DeSantis transformed into an anti-public health crusader

By Dylan Scott April 27

Joe Biden’s newest primary challenger is an anti-vaxxer Kennedy scion

By Ben Jacobs April 6

Why we’re scared of AI and not scared enough of bio risks

By Kelsey Piper April 6

The key to Covid’s origin lies in Beijing, not Wuhan

By Bryan Walsh March 18

The knowns — and known unknowns — of long Covid, explained

By Dylan Scott March 13

The Covid mask wars have left us unprepared for the next pandemic

By Kelsey Piper March 10

SNAP boosts kept millions out of poverty during Covid. Now they’re gone.

By Ellen Ioanes March 4

Why it’s so hard to get answers on long Covid

By Keren Landman March 4

The FBI and Energy Department think Covid-19 came from a lab. Now what?

By Umair Irfan March 1

Nobody knows what the point of homework is

By Jacob Sweet February 23

The new scientific review on masks and Covid isn’t what you think

By Kelsey Piper February 22

The other long Covid: The damage done to a generation of schoolchildren

By Bryan Walsh February 21

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

By Rachel DuRose January 31

Were bivalent boosters worth it?

By Keren Landman January 20

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

By Kelsey Piper January 18

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

By Umair Irfan January 6

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

By Ellen Ioanes January 1

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

By Dylan Matthews, Kelsey Piper, and 2 more December 31, 2022

Why are American lives getting shorter?

By Siobhan McDonough December 22, 2022

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

By Umair Irfan December 17, 2022

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

By Dylan Scott December 15, 2022

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

By Dylan Scott December 7, 2022

China’s Covid narrative is backfiring

By Jen Kirby December 1, 2022

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

By Kelsey Piper November 30, 2022

What makes China’s wave of protests different this time

By Jonathan Guyer November 30, 2022

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

By Ellen Ioanes November 27, 2022

How to make Covid the last pandemic

By Kelsey Piper November 23, 2022

Will America continue to turn away from vaccines?

By Yasmin Tayag November 22, 2022

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

By Allie Volpe November 18, 2022

Your free pandemic health perks are on the way out

By Umair Irfan November 3, 2022

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

By Kelsey Piper October 26, 2022

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