Coronavirus Reinfection Will Soon Become Our Reality
The virus can take many paths to reinvading a person’s body. Most of them shouldn’t scare us.
The virus can take many paths to reinvading a person’s body. Most of them shouldn’t scare us.
Why do so many patients have to wait until they’re suffering terribly before they can get relief?
The Danish series John Dillermand makes a very big deal about a very big body part.
We’ll never know for sure how contagious people are after they’re vaccinated, but we do know how they should act.
Telephone CPR saved my father-in-law’s life. Why don’t all 911 services provide that?
Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths all fell for the fourth consecutive week.
James Hamblin answers questions from callers with mild COVID-19 cases.
A guide to America’s awkward, semi-vaccinated months
At some point—maybe even soon—the emergency phase of the pandemic will end. But what, exactly, is that magic threshold?
The first way to fight a new virus would once have been opening the windows.
By spending lots of money and not worrying about liability, America is beating Europe in the vaccine race.
The ruckus of cars and planes can damage not just your ears, but also your heart.
In November, COVID-19 levels shot past the worst of the summer’s surge. Now they’re back below that threshold.
Why have the economic and psychological stresses of the pandemic hit women harder—and what can we do about it?
Families will gather. Restaurants will reopen. People will travel. The pandemic may feel like it’s behind us—even if it’s not.
Every major pandemic indicator has been falling for weeks.
Vaccine regimens need both science and public trust to succeed.
Local health departments are counting on lifestyle bloggers and fitness experts to get their message out.
Vaccines are a public good. Until the world regards them as such, the pandemic will not end.
The virus is evolving, but the antibodies that fight it can change, too.
Cases are down 57 percent from the country’s all-time peak in early January, according to the COVID Tracking Project.