On June 3, 2021, a roughly 60-year-old man in the riverside city of Magdeburg, Germany, received his first COVID vaccine. He opted for Johnson & Johnson’s shot, popular…
Read more Pfizer Couldn’t Pay for Marketing This GoodRelatively speaking, 2023 has been the least dramatic year of COVID living to date. It kicked off with the mildest pandemic winter on record, followed by more than…
Read more How Bad Are America’s COVID-Vaccination Rates?Since Omicron swept across the globe in 2021, the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 has moved at a slower and more predictable pace. New variants of interest have come and…
Read more How Bad Could BA.2.86 Get?The world has just seen the largest vaccination campaign in history. At least 13 billion COVID shots have been administered—more injections, by a sweeping margin, than there are…
Read more The Age of Vaccine PessimismIn China, a dam seems on the verge of breaking. Following a wave of protests, the government has begun to relax some of its most stringent zero-COVID protocols,…
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Read more Annual COVID Shots Mean We Can Stop CountingFor about 60 years, health authorities in the United States have been championing a routine for at least some sector of the public: a yearly flu shot. That…
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