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 GoodListen to this article Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration. In Arnold Monto’s ideal vision of this fall, the United States’ flu vaccines…
Read more Flu Shots Need to Stop Fighting ‘Something That Doesn’t Exist’Back in the spring, around the end of the COVID-19 public-health emergency, hospitals around the country underwent a change in dress code. The masks that staff had been…
Read more The Big COVID Question for Hospitals This FallUpdated at 2:45 p.m. on March 21, 2023 Last week, the ongoing debate about COVID-19’s origins acquired a new plot twist. A French evolutionary biologist stumbled across a…
Read more A Major Clue to COVID’s Origins Is Just Out of ReachFor the past few weeks, my daily existence has been scored by the melodies of late winter: the drip of melting ice, the soft rustling of freshly sprouted…
Read more Are Colds Really Worse, or Are We All Just Weak Babies Now?In the early spring of 2020, the condition we now call long COVID didn’t have a name, much less a large community of patient advocates. For the most…
Read more The Future of Long COVIDAfter nearly three years of constantly thinking about COVID, it’s alarming how easily I can stop. The truth is, as a healthy, vaxxed-to-the-brim young person who has already…
Read more What Does It Mean to Care About COVID Anymore?A version of this article was originally published in Undark Magazine. On a late April afternoon, the Ngor Health Center in Dakar, Senegal, is serene. Sunlight spills through…
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