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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty Should Your Flu and COVID Shots Go in Different Arms?
Welcome to the two-vaccine conundrum.
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Hoi Chan The Diagnosis Trap
Doctors have their stories to tell about mental illness. But what about the stories we tell ourselves?
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Jim Wilson / The New York Times / … Are We Really Getting COVID Boosters Every Year Forever?
Prepare yourself for a lifetime of fall vaccine campaigns.
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Salvatore Laporta / LightRocket / Getty The Strongest Signal That Americans Should Worry About Flu This Winter
An unnerving flu season in the Southern Hemisphere bodes poorly for those in the north.
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KEREM YUCEL / AFP / Getty Making Insulin Cheaper Isn’t Enough
If the drug becomes significantly cheaper than newer, better diabetes treatments, more people could die from the disease.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty America’s Baffling Booster Messaging
“Vaccines are super important, but they can’t do this job alone.”
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The Atlantic Three Solutions for Public Health—And One Dangerous Idea
The agency I used to lead is beset by slowness, impracticality, and lack of strategic thinking—but its mission is too essential to abandon.
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Stanley O. Foster / CDC / World Health … What I Learned From the World’s Last Smallpox Patient
Declaring victory over a disease is easier than meeting survivors’ needs.
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The Atlantic; Getty ‘It Just Seems Like My Patients Are Sicker’
For much of the pandemic, Americans put off nonemergency health care. That could haunt us for years to come.
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RJ Sangosti / The Denver Post / Getty The Call That Could Save a Farmer’s Life
Droughts, pests, and slim margins threaten farmers’ mental health. To help, five states are piloting a unique hotline.
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Getty; The Atlantic No One Knows What’s Inside the Smallpox Vaccine
The key ingredient in our oldest vaccine is a mystery that goes back 200 years.
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Arnold Jerocki / Getty America’s Fall Booster Plan Has a Fatal Paradox
New boosters that target Omicron may be our most important COVID vaccines since 2020—but the U.S. may be setting up the new shots to fail.
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Joe Raedle/Getty A Risky Monkeypox Vaccine Is Looking Better All the Time
The administration’s newest vaccine Hail Mary may not be enough to fix the U.S.’s monkeypox immunization problems.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty A Prominent Vaccine Skeptic Returns to Twitter
A year after he was banned, Alex Berenson sued his way back. Are more lawsuits coming?
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Getty / The Atlantic Serving Patients Through a Screen
How I went from telemedicine skeptic to advocate
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New York Historical Society / The Atlantic Asking Gay Men to Be Careful Isn’t Homophobia
Public-health officials don’t need to tiptoe around how monkeypox is currently being transmitted.
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Getty; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic America’s New Monkeypox Strategy Rests on a Single Study
Will splitting monkeypox vaccines in five work out?
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Anna Bizon / EyeEm / Getty The Problem With Being Too Cautious in Vaccine Trials
Scientists try to protect children and pregnant women from harm, but exclusion from early research carries a cost.
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Katie Martin / Jo Imperio / The Atlantic; … Fish Oil Is Good! No, Bad! No, Good! No, Wait.
Americans love it. But the science is getting even weirder.
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Mario Tama / Getty What Should Worry Most Americans About Our Monkeypox Response
The U.S. has declared (another) public-health emergency. An expert weighs in on whether we might botch this one, too.
