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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.

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

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

“She hardly goes out”: Racism is keeping many Asian Americans from going to the doctor

Pandemic-related hate crimes against Asian Americans have left many feeling unsafe in public. The consequences of missed health care will have lasting effects.

By Jenny Chen

The Aftermath

By Vox Staff

Health care in jails and prisons is terrible. The pandemic made it even worse.

By Victoria Law

Yes, you should test for Covid before going to a gathering

By Allie Volpe

The FDA has authorized Covid-19 vaccines for babies and toddlers. Here’s what parents should know.

By Umair Irfan

A new study claims Medicare-for-all could have saved more than 200,000 lives during the pandemic

By Dylan Scott

Why have politicians stopped talking about Covid?

By Dylan Scott

How the US is failing refugees, in one chart

By Sigal Samuel

We just got the most comprehensive study of pandemic learning loss

By Sean Rameswaram and Miles Bryan

The kids who have never known life without Covid-19

By Anna North

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When hospitals value nurses as much as jello

Hospitals don’t profit off having good nurses. That’s a big problem.

By Dylan Scott

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

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