A pelican suspected to have died from H5N1 avian influenza on a beach in Peru in December.Credit…Ernesto Benavides/Agence France-Presse, via Getty Images
An Even Deadlier Pandemic Could Soon Be Here
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Covid Drugs Save Lives, but Americans Can’t Get Them
By Zeynep Tufekci Almost two months after President Biden promised to make lifesaving drugs against Covid widely available to Americans, the medications remain hard to get for many, despite supplies, leaving large numbers of Americans to face increased risks of...
How Millions of Lives Might Have Been Saved From Covid-19
By ZEYNEP TUFEKCI This article is part of Times Opinion’s reflection on the two-year mark of the Covid pandemic. Read more in a note from Alexandra Sifferlin, Opinion’s health and science editor, in our Opinion Today newsletter. We cannot step into the same...
The Unvaccinated May Not Be Who You Think
By Zeynep Tufekci Back when a viral pandemic killing millions around the world was just the plot of a scary movie, the film “Contagion” was lauded for how accurately it depicted the way such an outbreak would occur. On the science of viral contagion, it was quite...
Where Did the Coronavirus Come From? What We Already Know Is Troubling.
June 25, 2021 ~ New York Times ~ Zeynep Tufekci Where Did the Coronavirus Come From? What We Already Know Is Troubling. There were curious characteristics about the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 1977-78, which emerged from northeastern Asia and killed an estimated...