Year Three of the Covid Pandemic

Year Three of the Covid Pandemic

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Year Three of the Covid Pandemic

March 11, 2022

Liza Featherstone

The “Solidarity” Trap

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

March 10, 2022

Eleanor Cummins

The Story of the Spanish Flu Ended Before the Virus Did. The Same Is Happening With the Covid Pandemic.

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

March 10, 2022

Ben McKenzie, Jacob Silverman

The Pandemic Sparked a Golden Age of Crypto Scams

Depraved grifters compounded the misery of Covid-19 by defrauding Americans through bitcoin, NFTs, and meme stocks.

March 9, 2022

Melody Schreiber

This Is How Covid Started. And Here’s How We Stop the Next One.

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

March 8, 2022

The Pandemic Gave America a Painfully Brief Glimpse of a Better Health Care System

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

March 8, 2022

After Two Years of Covid, the U.S. Economy Is Thriving. We Have the Great Recession to Thank.

Unlike in the last economic crisis, the government didn’t hesitate about spending money during the pandemic.