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.


More Americans than ever are willing to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, but a partisan divide remains.


TSA data shows Americans are flying more than last year, despite the threat of another wave of Covid-19 cases.


Herd immunity isn’t the right goal. Here are the right metrics.


Toddlers and teenagers might have pretty different summers.


Go ahead, romanticize your summer self.


The EU’s top health regulator ruled the vaccine “safe and effective” after a distribution pause.


Ohio wants red states to be able to get something for nothing from the federal government.


Covid-19 experts explain when individuals and states can expect to ease up — and what could still go wrong.


Republicans are the most Covid-19 vaccine hesitant group. Trump can help.


Trump’s base is remarkably vaccine-hesitant, so what he says about vaccination matters.

From Contagion to World War Z to Palm Springs, what the artists who foresaw the pandemic are thinking now.


Brands want to help consumers imagine a post-pandemic world, but they’re cautious about celebrating prematurely.


Benefits don’t do any good if they don’t reach their recipients. They often don’t.

Pandemic survivor guilt may be pervasive, but it’s hard to detect, leaving many struggling in silence.


Democrats are doing a lot to help workers. They can — and should — go further.

The pandemic took lives far too soon. How much human potential has been lost?


The dentist, a rare book, family, bills — how some Americans are spending their economic payments.


Vaccination rates are on the rise, and parents are eager to send their kids back to the classroom.


Testing is critical for staying ahead of the new variants.


To get 50 million people vaccinated, Facebook will have to do more than just PR.


Patients are usually terrible at getting their second shot. Not with the Covid-19 vaccine.


And it’s not going over well.

Pandemic parenting is impossible. American work culture is a big reason why.


Harm reduction works. Covid-19 has proved it.


A new report highlights why different groups are hesitant to get the coronavirus vaccine and what can be done about it.


Days after Biden signed his relief bill into law, Americans are receiving much-needed payments.


Covid-19 vaccines truly are coming for everyone soon.


Clothing has long been a celebratory tool. Covid-19 vaccinations are no different.

Biden marked a grim anniversary but has hope for the future in his first primetime address.


More Americans are comfortable with getting the Covid-19 vaccine. Still, about 30 percent of adults plan to refuse it.


By March 2020, researchers knew that uncontrolled spread would be disastrous.


Biden just signed the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package, which includes $1,400 direct payments.


Why do we preserve the scary, endless pandemic days?


We’re not on the front lines like our partners. But many of us still carry the weight of secondary trauma.


We’re health disparities experts in Baltimore. Here’s how we’re helping more Latinos get their shots.



The Latin American country bet big on vaccines and relied on a strong primary health care network. Now, a quarter of the country has had at least one shot.


Facebook critics say the anti-vaccination communities that have flourished on the platform are fueling Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy.


The guidelines still urge caution around meeting up with unvaccinated people at high risk for severe disease. But the new rules are a big step toward normalcy.


What my mother’s Zooms taught me about friendship.