The president’s remarks undermined the campaign for the new booster shots. Nearly 4,000 people have since died of Covid-19 in the United States.

The United States has a brief window in which it can decide how monkeypox plays out from here.

As the World Health Organization declares an international emergency, it’s clear America has dropped the ball.

As the BA.5 variant takes over, Covid death numbers have become an object lesson in why raw data is often misleading.

A quick, targeted vaccination campaign could stop this disease in its tracks.

Monkeypox and Covid aren’t a zero-sum game. They’re more connected than they first appear. Acknowledging that can help us fight both.

Disaster preparedness doesn’t need to be right-wing and individualistic. It does, however, need to be paired with policy.

New variants can infect people who had Covid-19 as recently as a few months ago.

Climate change is driving animals into new habitats, increasing the encounters that give rise to viruses like Covid-19.

As the BA.2 variant moves through the U.S., our data on Covid-19 and its variants is getting worse, not better.

Two years into the Covid pandemic, the agency is still confusing the public with contradictory, erratic messaging.

Our failures of pandemic solidarity cost lives. Ukraine is testing our solidarity in another way.

This isn’t the first time society has struggled to make sense of the long tail of a pandemic.

The lab leak theory is dead. Covid-19’s true origins show why we need better disease surveillance of wild and domesticated animals alike.

The massive government interventions that buffered Covid-19’s ravages are fading away, returning us to an unacceptable status quo.

Even after the pandemic, we don’t know what Covid holds for us. But we should be prepared.

The physicians and scientists of the Urgency of Normal are cherry-picking data in their push to end pandemic precautions, but are getting favorable mainstream media attention and support from wealthy, white communities that never felt the full brunt of Covid-19.

Americans have heard conflicting advice from various public health agencies during this pandemic. The solution begins with local reform.

Face masks keep kids safe from Covid-19 and keep schools open. There’s no evidence they harm kids developmentally.