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Coronavirus: America's response

Vox's coverage of how the United States is responding to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, from President Trump, Congress, and state governments, to our healthcare systems and medical officials. To read more of Vox's coronavirus coverage, return to the hub here.

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Your free pandemic health perks are on the way out

The privatization of the Covid-19 response is well underway as federal funding runs out.

By Umair Irfan

The best thing you can do to quash a deadly Covid-19 surge this winter

Redesigned Covid-19 vaccines could save thousands of lives, but few are getting them.

By Umair Irfan

We’ve all got Covid-19 fatigue, but BA.5 shows it’s not over

By Ellen Ioanes

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

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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

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

By Dylan Scott

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

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg and Dylan Matthews

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

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

By Dylan Scott

The secrets hidden in sewage

By Dylan Scott

What the media needs to get right in the next pandemic

By Kelsey Piper

The good and bad news about the current Covid-19 wave

By Dylan Scott

How sewage can warn us about the next pandemic

By Muizz Akhtar

How to test and trace a virus we haven’t discovered yet

By Dylan Matthews

Congress is cutting corners on Covid-19 funding. We may pay for it later.

By Dylan Scott

The Biden administration is ending a controversial border policy

By Nicole Narea

Who should get a fourth Covid-19 vaccine shot — and when?

By Dylan Scott

What’s in Congress’s $1.5 trillion appropriations bill

By Li Zhou

You can now order more free Covid-19 rapid tests from Biden’s program

By Rebecca Heilweil

How the era of travel nursing has changed health care

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

Is the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic behind us? We asked 8 experts.

By Keren Landman, Umair Irfan, and 1 more

2 big reasons America’s booster rates are lagging

By Dylan Scott

Democratic governors are trying to move on from a pandemic that’s still happening

By Li Zhou

Will schools require Covid-19 vaccines for students?

By Anna North

Who actually needs a fourth Covid-19 shot?

By Dylan Scott

How to heal our national exhaustion

By Anna North

The hidden lesson in the new free Covid-19 tests

By Dara Lind

How to spot the signs of long Covid — and what to do next

By Casey Gueren

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

By Dylan Scott

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

By Dylan Scott

We’ll never have a normal flu season again

By Dylan Scott

The most consistently botched part of the US pandemic response

By Dylan Scott

Texas shows the dangers of indifference to omicron

By Nicole Narea

Rapid tests, omicron, and you

By Rebecca Heilweil

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

By Nicole Narea

The shape of the omicron wave is becoming clearer

By Dylan Scott

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

By Dylan Scott

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

By Dylan Scott

How omicron broke Covid-19 testing

By Rebecca Heilweil

Congress is on the brink of an immense health policy failure

By Dylan Scott