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Evidence-based explanations of the Covid-19 pandemic, including how it started, how it might end, and how to protect yourself and others.

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The CDC has finally loosened Covid isolation guidelines. Here’s why that’s a good thing.

By Keren Landman, MD

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Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere?

By Dylan Matthews

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Why are so few people getting the latest Covid-19 vaccine?

By Dylan Scott

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The lifesaving, Nobel Prize-winning discovery that almost didn’t happen

By Kelsey Piper

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More young, healthy people should be getting Paxlovid when they get Covid

By Keren Landman, MD

Another Covid-19 winter is coming. Here’s how to prepare.

By Dylan Scott

How Covid misinformation stayed one step ahead of Facebook

By A.W. Ohlheiser

The dangers of virus hunting

By Kelsey Piper

New Covid vaccines are coming out. The CDC wants you to get one.

By Rachel DuRose

Covid is on the rise again, but it’s different now

By Keren Landman, MD

The US has new Covid-19 variants on the rise. Meet Eris and Fornax.

By Rachel DuRose

You still need to tell your friends if you get Covid

By Allie Volpe

It’s time to close the gene synthesis loophole that could lead to a human-made pandemic

By Kelsey Piper

RFK Jr.’s fringe presidential candidacy, explained

By Nicole Narea

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How AI could spark the next pandemic

By Kelsey Piper

A Covid outbreak at a CDC conference is ironic. But is it a big deal?

By Keren Landman, MD

Why the world should celebrate Smallpox Eradication Day

By Kelsey Piper

Can a 50-year-old treaty still keep the world safe from the changing threat of bioweapons?

By Jen Kirby

How Ron DeSantis transformed into an anti-public health crusader

By Dylan Scott

Joe Biden’s newest primary challenger is an anti-vaxxer Kennedy scion

By Ben Jacobs

Why we’re scared of AI and not scared enough of bio risks

By Kelsey Piper

The key to Covid’s origin lies in Beijing, not Wuhan

By Bryan Walsh

The knowns — and known unknowns — of long Covid, explained

By Dylan Scott

The Covid mask wars have left us unprepared for the next pandemic

By Kelsey Piper

SNAP boosts kept millions out of poverty during Covid. Now they’re gone.

By Ellen Ioanes

Why it’s so hard to get answers on long Covid

By Keren Landman, MD

The FBI and Energy Department think Covid-19 came from a lab. Now what?

By Umair Irfan

Nobody knows what the point of homework is

By Jacob Sweet

The new scientific review on masks and Covid isn’t what you think

By Kelsey Piper

The other long Covid: The damage done to a generation of schoolchildren

By Bryan Walsh

What can the world learn from China’s “zero-Covid” lockdown?

By Rachel DuRose

Were bivalent boosters worth it?

By Keren Landman, MD

Operation Warp Speed was a huge success. So why is the US turning away from it?

By Kelsey Piper

How the latest Covid-19 variant is shaping the course of the pandemic

By Umair Irfan

Xi Jinping has abandoned zero-Covid. What happens now?

By Ellen Ioanes

22 predictions we made in 2022, and the 6 we got wrong

By Dylan Matthews, Kelsey Piper, and 2 more

Why are American lives getting shorter?

By Siobhan McDonough

One of our best Covid-19 treatments doesn’t work anymore. What now?

By Umair Irfan

Ron DeSantis’s vaccine “investigation” is all about beating Trump

By Dylan Scott

China’s health system isn’t ready for the end of “zero Covid”

By Dylan Scott

China’s Covid narrative is backfiring

By Jen Kirby

How “zero-Covid” changed China — and the world

By Kelsey Piper

What makes China’s wave of protests different this time

By Jonathan Guyer

The wave of protests testing China’s zero-Covid policy, explained

By Ellen Ioanes

How to make Covid the last pandemic

By Kelsey Piper

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