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The parents of the youngest children are not okay

By Katherine Harmon Courage

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

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

By Dylan Scott

Just how much is Trump’s judiciary sabotaging the Biden presidency?

By Ian Millhiser

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

Does it still make sense for vaccinated people with Covid-19 to isolate for 10 days?

By Dylan Scott

Omicron is coming and lockdowns aren’t coming back. So what can we do?

By Dylan Scott

The one-dose problem is real

By Dylan Scott

What South Africa is seeing in its omicron outbreak

By Dylan Scott

Who the pandemic’s next phase will hurt the most

By Dylan Scott

Biden’s winter Covid plan is what a new normal might look like

By Dylan Scott

How to know if omicron is as scary as it seems

By Dylan Scott

Booster shots today could fight omicron tomorrow

By Dylan Scott

4 big questions about the new omicron variant

By Dylan Scott

The lawsuits attacking Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate, explained

By Ian Millhiser

Why the US nursing crisis is getting worse

By Dylan Scott

The US is about to make the same pandemic preparedness mistake — again

By Dylan Scott

Pfizer’s clinical data puts the US one step closer to a Covid-19 vaccine for younger kids

By Ellen Ioanes

Who should get a Covid-19 booster shot right now?

By Dylan Scott

The best- and worst-case scenarios for Covid-19 this winter

By Dylan Scott

Why people who don’t trust vaccines embrace unproven drugs

By Dylan Scott

The new guidelines for Covid-19 booster shots, explained

By Dylan Scott

Does everybody need a booster shot?

By Dylan Scott

It’s time to stop describing lifesaving health care as “elective”

By Andréa Becker

Americans are dying because no hospital will take them

By Dylan Scott

The US was a world leader in vaccination. What went wrong?

By Dylan Scott

Why America can’t fix its Covid-19 testing problems

By Dylan Scott

How Florida’s massive Covid-19 spike got so bad

By Dylan Scott

What we actually know about the vaccines and the delta variant

By Dylan Scott

School boards are in open revolt against Ron DeSantis’s anti-mask crusade

By Ian Millhiser

Will the Taliban roll back two decades of public health progress in Afghanistan?

By Dylan Matthews

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The long road to India’s unparalleled pandemic catastrophe

India’s health system was broken. Then the delta surge arrived.

By Dylan Scott, Pamposh Raina, and 1 more

Why it’s so hard to be a nurse in America, according to two nurses

By Katherine Harmon Courage

The pandemic changed the trajectory of America’s overdose and suicide crises

By Dylan Scott

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