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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.

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

“A lot of unnecessary loss of life”: The White House’s dire warning on Covid-19 funding

By Dylan Scott

The developing Covid crisis in Beijing, explained

By Muizz Akhtar

Bill Gates knows philanthropy alone can’t solve inequality

By Whizy Kim

Carrick Flynn may be 2022’s unlikeliest candidate. Here’s why he’s running.

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg and Dylan Matthews

4 questions about long Covid experts wish they could answer

By Keren Landman

The major blind spot in Bill Gates’s pandemic prevention plan

By Whizy Kim

Smallpox used to kill millions of people every year. Here’s how humans beat it.

By Kelsey Piper

Can we stop the next pandemic by seeking out deadly viruses in the wild?

By Kelsey Piper

How many people have died from the Covid-19 crisis?

By Umair Irfan

3 pandemic metrics that could tell us what’s next

By Dylan Scott

The faulty foundation of our new post-pandemic normal

By Dylan Scott

How to think about masking on planes, trains, and buses right now

By Rachel Wilkerson Miller

Shanghai’s zero Covid nightmare

By Zack Beauchamp

Welcome to the choose-your-own-adventure phase of the pandemic

By Dylan Scott

The Trump judge’s opinion striking down the airplane mask mandate is a legal disaster

By Ian Millhiser

How China’s zero-Covid policy is failing Shanghai

By Ellen Ioanes

It’s time to think outside the mask mandate

By Keren Landman

The CDC’s new Covid-19 guidelines are facing their first test with BA.2

By Keren Landman