Five COVID Numbers That No Longer Make Any Sense
The past two and a half years have been a global crash course in infection prevention. They've also been a ...
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Your Negative COVID Test Is Basically Meaningless
In early May, 27-year-old Hayley Furmaniuk felt tired and a bit congested, but after rapid-testing negative for the coronavirus two ...
Little-Kid Vaccines Missed Their Pandemic Moment
When Kishana Taylor enrolled her 3-year-old son, John, in preschool last fall, she figured COVID-19 immunizations for kids under-5 would ...
You Are Going to Get COVID Again … and Again … and Again
Two and a half years and billions of estimated infections into this pandemic, SARS-CoV-2’s visit has clearly turned into a ...
The CDC Shifted the Pandemic’s Burden to the Vulnerable
This time last week, nearly all Americans were still being urged by the nation’s leadership to please, keep those darn ...
COVID Parenting Has Passed the Point of Absurdity
Last Thursday, a group of 20 mothers in Boston met up outside a local high school. Their goal wasn’t to ...
Cringe Culture Isn’t What It Used to Be
Take a tweet from the week after the Capitol riot in January 2021: “A Liberal insurrection would have looked very ...
How Americans Really Feel About 800,000 COVID-19 Deaths
In late May of 2020, the U.S. hit one of what has become so many grim pandemic milestones: our first ...
Coronavirus Ventilation: A New Way to Think About Air
When London vanquished cholera in the 19th century, it took not a vaccine, or a drug, but a sewage system. ...
Disinfected Mail Tells the Story About Old Pandemics
As a young boy, Denis Vandervelde realized he faced two major obstacles to achieving distinction in the study of stamps, ...