By Katelyn Jetelina and Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD On my way back from Turkey, and there’s nothing quite like international travel to help put things into perspective. There are much bigger problems in this world right now than the mask debate. Still, it would be...
Thinking through the holidays this year
By Your Local Epidemiologist: Katelyn Jetelina It’s been a while since I’ve shared my own chronicles of navigating this pandemic. I dread doing so, because I receive so much hate after. But it’s getting harder and harder to ignore the questions as we navigate the...
Long COVID Mini-Series: Burden
By Katelyn Jetelina This week I’m diving deep into long COVID. We’ve been so focused on the pandemic’s impact on lives lost that we’ve neglected to recognize health lost. This mini-series will be 5 posts in total on long COVID: burden, impact on specific organs,...
Antigen Tests: Real World Data
By Katelyn Jetelina Today, after 2 long years, antigen tests are finally available to Americans free of charge. (Actually, yesterday the system secretly went live. More than 900,000 got word and flooded the site in a few hours). Each household can order up...