Public Health
Do soda taxes fight obesity? How did Juul hook American teens? Vox tackles all your questions about public health issues and trends.
Meet the person who wants to bring effective altruism to Congress.
America is enduring its worst baby formula shortage in decades.
Covid-19 case numbers aren’t as reliable these days. How can we keep track of the virus?
Covid-19 vaccines and antivirals can’t fix the US health care system’s inequities.
What the end of plane mask mandates reveals about our new pandemic normal.
An expert explains why a shifting pandemic demands a broader set of solutions.
Wastewater can help us monitor Covid-19. What else can it tell us?
Journalists struggled to accurately convey scientific uncertainty on Covid-19.
How 3D printing can help mitigate PPE supply shortages in future pandemics.
Even if BA.2 doesn’t spark a nationwide surge, it still poses dangers.
The ins and outs of wastewater surveillance.
The global vaccination campaign got cut out of Congress’s new Covid-19 funding bill. That’s a mistake.
A former White House immigration official weighs the challenges ahead as the administration prepares for a spike in migrant arrivals.
The meat industry’s environmental racism problem, explained.
Here’s what to consider.
The case for treating internet access as a health necessity.
The case for cautious optimism for the US.
The secret sauce of the Partners in Health co-founder’s success.
There are two primary reasons more Americans aren’t boosted. One is easy to fix. The other is really hard.
A new study tried to figure out which messages can actually break through to vaccine skeptics.
The pandemic revealed the flaws in the FDA’s risk assessments.
Most people don’t need a fourth Covid-19 shot yet. But for some, it’s very important.
“We are really working day and night” to figure out long Covid, one researcher said.
An epidemiologist on the health risks of the omicron variant, child care issues, and the unique pandemic struggles of working parents.
Three factors make it hard for the US to respond nimbly to new pandemic threats.
This terrible Covid and flu season is a preview of the post-pandemic normal.
Why are public health officials so bad at talking to us?
The state is facing worryingly high hospitalizations, staff shortages, and dwindling ICU beds.
At-home tests work with omicron, but there are caveats.
There are not two Americas when it comes to omicron.
More than a year after Trump’s defeat, Biden is forced to share power with increasingly partisan judges.
Both metrics are important, but all of our data doesn’t matter if we don’t do anything with it.
Rapid tests are sold out everywhere, and help might not come until next year.
Covid-19 exposed many of the flaws in the US health care system. Congress might not do anything to fix them.
Omicron — and short-staffed hospitals — could force the US to rethink isolation rules.
There is no grand plan for stopping omicron — but that doesn’t mean we’re powerless.
We know lots of Americans skipped their second Covid-19 shot. We just don’t know exactly how many.
One of the country’s top health journalists on omicron, early case and hospitalization data, and the West’s travel bans.
The US health system’s racial inequities will still be felt after Covid-19 becomes endemic.