Omicron is inundating a health-care system that was already buckling under the cumulative toll of every previous surge. By Ed Yong hen a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like. Much of what’s wrong happens invisibly. At first, there’s just a lot of...
Medical professionals are used to being believed, but as patients, they found that their expertise didn’t matter. By Ed Yong Before she caught COVID-19 at a wedding in March 2020, the physician associate spent her days diagnosing and treating people; after she was...
This one is far from over, but the window to prepare for future threats is closing fast. By Ed Yong A year after the United States bombed its pandemic performance in front of the world, the Delta variant opened the stage for a face-saving encore. If the U.S. had...
Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now. By Ed Yong Originally Published August 12, 2021 In september 2020, just before COVID-19 began its wintry surge through the...
By Ed Yong Vaccines are still beating the variants, but the unvaccinated world is being pummeled Fifteen months after the novel coronavirus shut down much of the world, the pandemic is still raging. Few experts guessed that by this point, the world would have not one...