Sarah Zhang
In 2021, she was a Livingston Award finalist for her reporting on Down syndrome. Before joining The Atlantic, she was a staff writer at Wired. She covers science and health.
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The Atlantic ; Getty Is a Common Virus Suddenly Causing Liver Failure in Kids?
No one knows exactly why hundreds of kids have shown up with hepatitis, but investigators have some ideas.
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Getty; The Atlantic A Tick Bite Made Them Allergic to Meat
And an organ-transplant company has an unexpected solution.
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The Atlantic Why Can’t We Just Call BA.2 Omicron?
Whatever happened to the simpler Greek-letter naming system?
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Getty; The Atlantic Tuberculosis Got to South America Through … Seals?
Ancient DNA reveals unexpected twists in the history of this deadly disease.
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Matthias Bein/Getty; H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Vaccinating Kids Has Never Been Easy
Uptake of COVID vaccines for kids has been slow, but it has been slow for other vaccines too.
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The Atlantic The Puzzling Virus That Infects Almost Everyone
For many people, Epstein-Barr virus causes mild initial infection, but it is also linked to cancers and multiple sclerosis. What do we do about it?
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Octavio Jones / Getty The COVID Strategy America Hasn’t Really Tried
The clearest way to reduce deaths is to push to vaccinate more of the elderly—yes, still!
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Getty; The Atlantic The Coronavirus Will Surprise Us Again
The variant after Omicron could look very different from any yet.
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Heritage Images / Getty; The Atlantic How a Rare Brain Mutation Spread Across America
The Bowlin family knew they had a history of malformations in the brain. But they had no idea how far back it went.
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Getty; The Atlantic Omicron Is Forcing Us to Rethink Mild COVID
The staggering number of infections among the vaccinated is changing Americans’ pandemic mindset.
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Getty; The Atlantic Omicron Is Pushing America Into Soft Lockdown
Nobody wants to mandate business closures, but so many people are getting sick that businesses are closing anyway.
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Tom Bingham You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Get a Hamster Drunk
“You just put a bottle of unsweetened Everclear on the cage and they love it.”
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Ben Hickey Omicron Is Our Past Pandemic Mistakes on Fast-Forward
We’ve been making the same errors for nearly two years now.
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Seth Wenig / AP We Know Enough About Omicron to Know That We’re in Trouble
More data will soon be coming in. But how much do they really matter?
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Josep Gutierrez / Getty; The Atlantic Omicron’s Explosive Growth Is a Warning Sign
We don’t know how severe Omicron is, but we do know it’s spreading very fast.
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Getty; The Atlantic We’re Not at Endemicity Yet
Too many people still have no protection against the coronavirus.
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Getty ; The Atlantic The Pandemic’s Next Turn Hinges on Three Unknowns
A potential winter surge is up to vaccines, variants, and us.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Next Weird Way We’re Changing Cats
What if you could make your cat hypoallergenic with biotechnology?
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Andrew Merry / Getty America Has Lost the Plot on COVID
We’re avoiding the hardest questions about living with the coronavirus long term.
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Justin Hofman / Alamy After 30 Years of Breeding Condors, a Secret Comes Out
‘Virgin birth’ might be more common in animals than we thought.
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