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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Rip Currents Don’t Have to Be So Deadly
This article was originally published in Hakai Magazine.On a sweltering day in July 2019, Summer Locknick plodded along Cavendish Beach ...
If Democrats Fail on Climate
For the past 18 months, Senate Democrats have been trying to find a climate deal acceptable to all 50 of ...
Monkeypox Vaccines Are Too Gnarly for the Masses
In the past three years, the world has weathered two very different global outbreaks, caused by two very different pathogens, ...
Rebound COVID Is Just the Start of Paxlovid’s Mysteries
The first data on Paxlovid, out last November, hinted that the COVID antiviral would cut the risk of hospitalization and ...
What Would It Take to Treat Guns Like a Public-Health Crisis?
Nearly 15 years ago, a young man who had shot himself in the head with his father’s gun was wheeled ...
So, Have You Heard About Monkeypox?
Yesterday afternoon, I called the UCLA epidemiologist Anne Rimoin to ask about the European outbreak of monkeypox—a rare but potentially ...
We’ve Never Been Good at Feeding Babies
Keeping an infant fed is a precarious task in the best of circumstances, and for many American parents, the circumstances ...
Will Fall’s Omicron Vaccines Come Too Late?
Up here in the Northern Hemisphere, the spring weather’s just barely warming, but regulators in the United States are already ...
Behold, the Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy
We live in the inner rim of one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms, a shimmery curve against inky darkness. ...