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‘What If You Just Don’t Tell Anyone?’
Why some people pretend they never had COVID-19
Why some people pretend they never had COVID-19
On the eve of Biden’s inauguration, the pandemic’s toll has reached nearly 24 million cases and 400,000 deaths.
The Biden administration has to make a choice: Should it undo a vital system that Trump’s health department created?
The most concerning versions of the virus are not simply mutating—they’re mutating in similar ways.
How bad are the new COVID-19 variants, really?
The virus is mutating as expected. We can still stop it.
States reported 23,259 COVID-19 deaths this week, and the number of people hospitalized with the disease is still rising.
Recovery has no standard definition, and some states, including California and Florida, do not report such data at all.
Quarantine is turning you into a stiff, hunched-over, itchy, sore, headachy husk.
Pharmacies have started quietly offering leftover COVID-19 shots to anyone around. You can guess where this goes.
States know very little about the results from rapid coronavirus tests.
Cloth masks are better than nothing, but they were supposed to be a stopgap measure.
The state’s hyperefficient health-care system runs pretty well—unless a pandemic strikes.
We’re behind, but that may change quickly.
Getting vaccines to hospitals and nursing homes was supposed to be the easy part.
America reported a record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the first week of 2021.
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.
The COVID Tracking Project’s extensive, daily data collection reveals the simple yet devastating ways the U.S. has failed.
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.