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America Has Not Fixed Its Deadliest Pandemic Errors
The COVID Tracking Project’s extensive, daily data collection reveals the simple yet devastating ways the U.S. has failed.
The COVID Tracking Project’s extensive, daily data collection reveals the simple yet devastating ways the U.S. has failed.
I’m just a kindly winter evangelist, standing in front of your outdoor restaurant table, asking you to wear layers.
Death and case counts are unreliable during the holidays, but hospitalizations are hitting new records in the South and West.
Hospitalizations are down across the Midwest, but a handful of states are showing worrisome signs.
As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.
Five states—Arizona, California, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas—account for 40 percent of all new cases reported in the past seven days.
Even for those who haven’t contracted COVID-19
Long-term-care residents who have been confined to their rooms for months have to wait a bit longer before they can finally receive a vaccine.
With days left to go in the month, the number of deaths reported passed April’s high.
Nine countries have now reported outbreaks on mink farms.
Despite alarming news reports, most allergies shouldn’t be an issue.
COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate by race, yet it has still laid bare the brutality of racism in the United States.
The Golden State was in better shape than most of the country. Now the outbreak there is going from bad to worse.
The coronavirus can cause insomnia and long-term changes in our nervous systems. But sleep could also be a key to ending the pandemic.
The COVID-19 vaccine will make some people feel sick. But they’re not—that’s the immune system doing its job.
For the second week in a row, more COVID-19 deaths were reported in the U.S. than at any other time in the pandemic.
The coronavirus is now resurgent in some of the states hardest hit in the spring and summer.
Christmas will look a little different this year, but everyone is still jonesing for a tree all their own.
How could we let people go so long without help?
The period after a vaccine is approved will be strange and confusing, as certain groups of people get vaccinated but others have to wait.
The United States is entering a long, dark period, and the pandemic is already breaking records from the spring.