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.

Childhood vaccination rates are plummeting amid misinformation and fearmongering.

A conversation with Alexander Zaitchik, author of “Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine From Aspirin to Covid-19 Vaccines”

Ignore the lazy conventional wisdom. The nation’s capital is the most public-spirited city in the country. By far.

The court did not foreclose robust new workplace vaccination standards, nor bless the radical right’s blueprint for annihilating the “administrative state.”

The endless pandemic is being framed as an economic liability more than a matter of public health.

The president’s bully pulpit isn’t too powerful if people are tuning him out.

Nationalist vaccine hoarding and pharmaceutical companies’ profit motives have contributed to the endless pandemic.

New medicines are on the way in the fight against the pandemic, but these life-saving drugs might get trapped in a maze of bad policy.

We’ve heard repeatedly from the country’s vaccine resisters. But what about the people who follow the rules? They’re ignored and forgotten—and they are in pain.

Is it any wonder they are quitting in droves?

We’ve heard this story before, when police said criminal justice reform would lead to mass resignations.

Religious exemptions from getting inoculated are coming to a federal court near you.

Until we have solid data on who needs them and how often, booster shots are going to be tough to distinguish from vaccine hoarding.

The person you’re trying to fool with that phony card is likely just an overtired bartender or HR administrator newly deputized into our chaotic public health infrastructure.

There are structural reasons people are swayed by anti-vaccine propaganda. Sneering at the unvaccinated won't solve them.

A highly contagious variant, quarantines, closures, and fast-changing rules: It was supposed to be a calm fall, but we’re looking at a new year that could look a lot like the last.

The late AFL-CIO president’s breathtaking Obama speech in 2008 was just one of countless times when he spoke a courageous truth.

How Covid vaccine skeptics came to embrace an apocryphal reading of a 1996 law.

The White House is putting money into pro-vaccine influencer campaigns while dropping the ball on essential efforts to save Americans from eviction and poverty.