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


Access barriers have created a Hispanic vaccination gap.

Five charts that show how dramatically the pandemic affected our spending.


The logic and challenge behind the FDA and CDC’s decision to temporarily halt the one-shot vaccine.


Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s actions fly in the face of mandatory restrictions she instituted last year.


The court rules that Bible study groups should be able to gather in private homes if commercial spaces are open.


The next month could determine who lives to see normalcy come back.

The nagging symptoms long-haulers experience reveal a frustrating blind spot in medicine.
And why Hart Island is changing after the Covid-19 pandemic.


The change comes two weeks earlier than previously scheduled.


Critics of lockdowns claimed they would cause a spike in suicides. That didn’t happen.


Can Americans travel right now? Kind of. Should Americans travel right now? That’s more complicated.


J&J says it will still meet US delivery targets for the single-shot Covid-19 vaccine.


What a vaccine’s “efficacy rate” actually means.


A lot of sellers did well selling cloth masks. Now some shops are turning to vaccine-themed gear.

Testing can do things for us now that it couldn’t do before.


A collection of stories about the coronavirus pandemic — what we’ve been through and where we go from here.


As Lorde said: “We live in cities.”

“Is this going to be like this forever?” An oral history of fear, endurance, and hope in Sunset Park.


It may still be a while. Here’s what parents can do in the meantime while their kids aren’t vaccinated and others are.


A new study looks at who signs up for Covid-19 human challenge trials — trials where people are infected with Covid-19 on purpose to help speed up vaccine development.


What can start small can quickly get very big.

Covid-19 would take hundreds of thousands of older Americans in nursing homes. Desperate that his ailing father would not be among them, one writer bounded home.

The Biden administration says it’s leaving digital vaccination records up to states and the private sector.


A new kind of Independence Day.


Millions of Americans have lost relatives and friends. We need to pay attention to the science and consequences of grief.


Covid-19 shots during pregnancy might also pass on protection against the virus to babies.


The former Trump health official’s comments to Sanjay Gupta and the ensuing backlash, briefly explained.


The events of the last year have been a breaking point for many Asian Americans.


Things are getting worse. Here’s what providers need now.


The new goal really isn’t that ambitious.


The company said its Covid-19 vaccine developed with Oxford had 76 percent efficacy in the US after a rare public rebuke from the NIH.

Why a memorial for Covid-19 victims can help us process our grief, and our anger, too.


Joe Biden’s stimulus bill — and $1,400 checks — are on their way. Here’s the latest news.


Restaurants and venues will soon be able to apply for dedicated grants.


“I don’t know how much time I get.”

From where we work to how our work is measured, office work will be permanently different after the pandemic.


Republicans are trying to claim credit for stimulus — and some voters are primed to believe them.

14 people look back and offer advice to their past selves on what’s to come.


I don’t know the people I book appointments for. That doesn’t matter.


Miami Beach’s mayor said the city faces “a confluence of challenging circumstances.”