Now What?
The president’s COVID-19 diagnosis raises a number of questions about when the president was infected and how many other people in the White House might be sick.
The Risk Universities Can’t Not Take
Inside the University of Arizona's $8-million, 117-day fight to reopen amid a pandemic
Listen: College Football Needs to Follow Science, Not Money
As colleges send athletes back on the field, we’re learning more about how COVID-19 could have serious and long-lasting impacts on hearts in even the healthiest among us.
This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic
It’s not R.
Paging Dr. Hamblin: I Can’t Bike Alone. Is It Safe to Ride With a Friend?
Tandem cycling is one of the few ways I can get outside, but I’m worried about doing it in a pandemic.
Why Is Uber Begging Me to Vote?
Brands have found a new way to insert themselves into democracy.
Vaccine Chaos Is Looming
The COVID-19 vaccines furthest along in clinical trials are the fastest to make, but they are also the hardest to deploy.
Listen: How Bad Will Winter Get?
Your cold-month questions, answered
Bill Gates: The Pandemic Has Erased Years of Progress
“If you only look at COVID deaths, you’re actually missing the scale of the setback.”
Fauci to a Meddling HHS Official: ‘Take a Hike’
The nation’s top public-health expert addresses political interference in the COVID-19 response, but urges Americans to focus on the winter ahead.
Paging Dr. Hamblin: What If the Vaccine Works Only Half the Time?
A coronavirus vaccine doesn’t need to be perfect to still be valuable.
A Failure of Empathy Led to 200,000 Deaths. It Has Deep Roots.
One giant psychology experiment explains why many people seem like they don’t care about the deaths of the elderly.
The Core Lesson of the COVID-19 Heart Debate
The new coronavirus seems so strange because it has our full attention in a way most viruses don’t.
How We Survive the Winter
The coming months of the pandemic could be catastrophic. The U.S. still has ways to prepare.
Listen: Fires Outside, Virus Inside
How wildfires make the virus more dangerous
Life in the Wake of COVID-19
Images of the difficult personal journey of a father and daughter, in the months after the loss of their wife and mother due to COVID-19
Listen: Is Faster Better?
We want vaccines. We want rapid tests. But when is fast too fast?
The Fog of the Pandemic Is Returning
Millions of coronavirus tests may be happening without their results being made public.
Paging Dr. Hamblin: Why Didn’t America’s Shutdowns Work?
Many places only half-heartedly gave lockdowns a shot in the spring—and now might have to try them again.
America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral
As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.