EpidemiologyMarch 3, 2022
Wastewater Monitoring Offers Powerful Tool for Tracking COVID and Other Diseases
A CDC database of sewage data from communities around the nation could provide earlier warning of outbreaks and new viral variants
The Coronavirus Outbreak
EpidemiologyMarch 2, 2022
When Should COVID School Restrictions Lift? Intense Debates Persist
Opinion among physicians and scientists still ranges widely on how quickly to proceed
May Issue: Your Heart in Flames. Read Now!
Public HealthMarch 1, 2022
COVID Is Here to Stay
How do we live with it?
Public HealthMarch 1, 2022
Introducing 21 Ways COVID Changed the World
The pandemic didn’t bring us together, but it did show us what we need to change the most
Health CareMarch 1, 2022
COVID Long Haulers Are Calling Attention to Chronic Illnesses
But society is not prepared for the growing crisis of long COVID
PolicyMarch 1, 2022
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis Made It Harder for Scientists to Seek the Truth
Virus origin stories have always been prone to conspiracy theories. COVID disinformation has threatened research—and lives
SociologyMarch 1, 2022
How a Virus Exposed the Myth of Rugged Individualism
Humans evolved to be interdependent, not self-sufficient
PolicyMarch 1, 2022
COVID Pushed Global Health Institutions to Their Limits
The need to reinvent the World Health Organization has become abundantly clear
PolicyMarch 1, 2022
COVID Changed the World of Work Forever
People realized their jobs don’t have to be that way
Health CareMarch 1, 2022
The Pandemic Set Off a Boom in Diagnostics
COVID accelerated the development of cutting-edge PCR tests—and made the need for them urgent
PolicyMarch 1, 2022
COVID’s Uneven Toll Captured in Data
Visualizing ongoing stories of loss, adaptation and inequality
Health CareMarch 1, 2022
Pandemic-Era Research Will Pay Off for Years
The COVID research infrastructure will help fight all sorts of pathogens