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

By Keren Landman

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Why the world should celebrate Smallpox Eradication Day

By Kelsey Piper

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

By Jen Kirby

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How Ron DeSantis transformed into an anti-public health crusader

By Dylan Scott

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

By Ben Jacobs

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

By Kelsey Piper

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

By Bryan Walsh

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

By Dylan Scott

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

By Kelsey Piper

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

By Ellen Ioanes

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

By Keren Landman

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

By Umair Irfan

Nobody knows what the point of homework is

By Jacob Sweet

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

By Kelsey Piper

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

By Bryan Walsh

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

By Rachel DuRose

Were bivalent boosters worth it?

By Keren Landman

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

By Kelsey Piper

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

By Umair Irfan

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

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