America’s Vaccine Future Is Fragmenting
Vaccinated America is on track to real safety. Unvaccinated America still faces a real danger from Delta.
The Best Way to Keep Your Kids Safe From Delta
Get the adults in your community vaccinated.
Masks Are Back, Maybe for the Long Term
Some people can’t help but feel that masking while vaccinated is a regression—especially because this time, there’s no obvious off-ramp.
American Shoppers Are a Nightmare
Customers were this awful long before the pandemic.
Watch the U.K. to Understand Delta
The country lifted all its COVID-19 restrictions just as Delta peaked. What happens next will tell us how well vaccines are working.
It’s Almost Impossible to Be a Running Fan
Doping controversies are just the start of what spectators have to worry about in this year’s Olympics.
How Did It Come to This?
The Delta variant is winning, for the moment, and the CDC’s coronavirus map shows that we’re failing to fight it.
Vaccines Are Great. Masks Make Them Even Better.
Why not both?
One More Thing We Have in Common With Cats
Feline genomes are surprisingly similar to humans’, and could help us treat disease in both species.
Your Vaccinated Immune System Is Ready for Breakthroughs
Getting COVID-19 when you’re vaccinated isn’t the same as getting COVID-19 when you’re unvaccinated.
4 Reasons I’m Wearing a Mask Again
Our vaccines are extraordinary, but right now they need all the help they can get.
America Is Getting Unvaccinated People All Wrong
They’re not all anti-vaxxers, and treating them as such is making things worse.
My Community Refuses to Get Vaccinated. Now Delta Is Here.
Only 35 percent of Arkansas is fully vaccinated, and with case rates rising, living there can feel like moving through a distorted reality.
We’re Zeroing In On the ‘Holy Grail’ of COVID-19 Immunity
There’s no good way of measuring whether your vaccine worked—yet.
Vaccination in America Might Have Only One Tragic Path Forward
COVID-19 vaccination rates have fallen off a cliff. Will it take a deadly summer surge to change things?
In the 1500s, Mail Disinfection Was Really, Really Weird
Past epidemics left behind a paper trail of stained, scorched, and punctured letters.
Delta Is Driving a Wedge Through Missouri
For America as a whole, the pandemic might be fading. For some communities, this year will be worse than last.
The FDA Is a Melting Iceberg
For decades, scientists have been crying out for action. Will they finally be heard?
Post-vaccination Infections Come in 2 Different Flavors
Lumping all breakthroughs together, regardless of symptoms, miscasts what our COVID-19 vaccines can do.
Emergency Medicine’s Original Sin
The misperception that paramedics are merely ambulance drivers is everyone’s problem.
Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers
The pandemic was a big social experiment that sent asthma attacks plummeting.