Public Health
Do soda taxes fight obesity? How did Juul hook American teens? Vox tackles all your questions about public health issues and trends.
Pandemic survivor guilt may be pervasive, but it’s hard to detect, leaving many struggling in silence.
Patients are usually terrible at getting their second shot. Not with the Covid-19 vaccine.
We’re health disparities experts in Baltimore. Here’s how we’re helping more Latinos get their shots.
The US set a new daily record for vaccinations on Saturday with 2.9 million shots.
“I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy”: Doctors describe what their sickest coronavirus patients endure.
Early data on why health care workers are delaying the Covid-19 vaccine could help us end the pandemic sooner.
The evidence is clear: We can open schools safely now.
The legislation calls for an anti-racism center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Prisoners say they’re “scared as hell” about a continued lack of vaccines, testing, and masks.
“It’s been a lifeline. I don’t have very big classes but when we meet up [over Zoom], we check in with each other. We see how we’re doing.”
My research shows that people think highly of others who conform to rules out of benevolence, which is a good way to sell mask-wearing.
Adding trained staff is much more difficult than making a physical ICU bed, especially deep into a pandemic.
Experts on safer (and riskier) ways to see friends and family, keep kids busy, and give back — in a raging pandemic.
It depends on where you live.
“We’re getting to another level of access to timely testing, and hopefully that trend is going to continue.”
What we can learn from the initial phase of vaccinating health care workers in the US.
Take this quiz to guess how Americans behave.
Why experts doubt new curfews will slow the spread of Covid-19.
A new Pew survey found 41 percent of people said they were not very likely to talk to a public health official about the coronavirus.
Deaths from all causes — not just Covid-19 — are up since the pandemic started, a CDC report found.
One researcher says we are “playing Russian roulette.”
Tens of thousands of women die and hundreds of thousands of babies are stillborn due to malaria. We can do better.
Two scientists explain the public health risks posed by factory farms — and how we might solve the problem.
“Any one of us could unknowingly be a superspreader.”
Biden cited a horrific statistic to make his case against Trump. The worst part is it’s true.
Most recently, Disney announced delays to many of its films, including Black Widow and West Side Story.
We don’t need people with the (largely preventable) flu flooding our hospitals in a pandemic.
A new testing strategy prioritizes infectiousness instead of infections.
A medical anthropologist on why the coronavirus response is so controversial in her hometown.
The pandemic has overwhelmed hospitals in the state’s lowest-income, primarily Hispanic communities.
Smarter testing could help save the US pandemic response.
Texas has become another cautionary tale amid the pandemic.
Trump and his officials have consistently ignored or tried to discredit scientists like Fauci.
The Obama administration cracked down on nursing homes with infection control problems. Trump reversed course.
Have these states seen a spike because of their economic reopenings?
Whether or not your state has already been hit hard by Covid-19, there is still reason for concern.
Protesting during a pandemic is a risk. But so is the status quo of police violence.
Black people make up a disproportionate share of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the state, but not deaths.
A new book explains how corporations create a climate of doubt around science and expertise.
It’s complicated.