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The Plague Year

  1. coronavirus
    America’s Vaccine Rollout Is Already a DisasterVaccines should bring the end of the pandemic, but we’re bungling their distribution just as badly as the rest of our coronavirus response.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  2. intelligencer chats
    When Will Vaccines Put a Real Dent in America’s Death Toll?Unfortunately, it might be a while.
    By Benjamin Hart and David Wallace-Wells
  3. tomorrow
    We Had the Vaccine the Whole TimeThe silver bullet we’ve been waiting for took all of one weekend to design.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  4. just asking questions
    How Rapid Antigen Tests Could (In Theory) Quash the Pandemic Within Weeks“We have this academic precision, and it’s really screwing us up in terms of being able to act with the urgency we need,” says Harvard’s Michael Mina.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  5. covid-19
    Un-Normalizing America’s Third Wave of the PandemicThe ongoing tsunami of new coronavirus cases should snap us out of any complacency.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  6. covid-19
    The Third Wave of the Pandemic Is HereThe coronavirus is once again gaining ground, with no end — or plan — in sight.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  7. coronavirus
    The Human Cost of the Pandemic May Dwarf Its Death TollThe long-term health effects of COVID-19 could be the most common and most devastating outcome, by far.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  8. covid-19
    The Good (But Not Great) News About T-Cells and Herd ImmunityTwo areas of research offer tentative hope that meaningful natural protection from COVID-19 may come sooner than expected.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  9. coronavirus
    America Is Refusing to Learn How to Fight the CoronavirusThe pandemic is surging again in the Southwest, where hospitals are reaching capacity. And it’s probably going to get worse.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  10. tomorrow
    Why Don’t Americans Trust the Public-Health Experts?Maybe because the public-health experts don’t trust them.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  11. coronavirus
    Has the Pandemic Peaked?Looking at a broad cohort of nations, and especially at the U.S., it appears, at the moment, as though the answer may be yes.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  12. coronavirus
    Learning to Live in the Valley of UncertaintyFor many critical coronavirus questions, like when schools should reopen, we simply do not have clear answers.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  13. coronavirus
    Covid-19 Targets the Elderly. Why Don’t Our Prevention Efforts?The evidence that the novel coronavirus targets the elderly are overwhelming. But our public-health measures treat everyone equally.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  14. coronavirus
    There Is Still No PlanThe lockdowns were an expensive way to buy time. The government has squandered it.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  15. public health
    What the Coronavirus Models Can’t SeeDeaths and new infections in the U.S. are surpassing projections even during lockdowns, and it’s likely to get worse.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  16. coronavirus
    We Still Don’t Know How the Coronavirus Is Killing UsSix months in, doctors and researchers are continuing to discover dangerous new ways COVID-19 affects the body.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  17. coronavirus
    We Are Probably Only One-Tenth of the Way Through This PandemicAnd maybe even less.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  18. coronavirus
    Best-Case Scenario for Coronavirus Is That It’s More Infectious Than We ThinkWe are stunningly ignorant about the virus that’s shutting down the world. Some of that uncertainty includes reasons for hope.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  19. life after warming
    The Coronavirus Is a Preview of Our Climate-Change FutureThe warming of the planet will lead to pandemics that are far more dangerous and disruptive.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  20. coronavirus
    There Is No Plan for the End of the Coronavirus CrisisOn top of Trump’s ongoing mismanagement, there is a shocking lack of a strategy, at any level of government, for what the country will do next.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  21. coronavirus
    Why Did an Expert Who Warned About COVID-19 Have So Much Trouble Being Heard?Though we often feel that we live in a sea of panic, it may be that the general din prevents us from hearing most important warning cries.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  22. coronavirus
    Coronavirus Shows Us America Is BrokenWe are seeing the collapse of civic authority and public trust at what is only the beginning of a protracted crisis.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  23. life after warming
    What Coronavirus Teaches Us About Climate ChangeAdaptation is not enough.
    By David Wallace-Wells