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Anti-vaccine ideology gains ground as state lawmakers target existing rules for kids’ shots
By Sandy West
Movement has gained momentum amid the coronavirus pandemic, boosting the reach of high-profile anti-vaccine activists
We’ll never know how many people are dead because of Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda
By Eric Boehlert
Fearful of far-right competitors, the Fox honcho decided to redouble the toxic lies about Covid-19
The privilege of staying home: Covid and the highly skilled workforce
By Agnieszka Weinar
Remote working during the pandemic allowed once-mobile skilled workers to choose immobility, with possible long-term impacts on future work and migration patterns
Embracing uncertainty may be a better way to cure conspiracist thinking
By Ivan Oransky
If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us, labels can make the truth that much harder to find
Medicare’s open enrollment is open season for scammers
By Susan Jaffe
Complaints are rising from seniors tricked by private insurance companies selling Medicare Advantage and drug plans
Vaccine patent waivers would be more effective at stopping covid variants than travel bans
By Andrea Germanos
Getting residents of low-income countries vaccinated is the best way to stop new SARS-CoV2 variants
Spiders are much smarter than most humans think
By Betsy Mason
New research is finding that brain size is no predictor of intelligent behavior
Newly released documents show how former Trump administration stifled scientists on coronavirus
By Mark Sumner
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis finds Trump officials blocked government officials from giving health briefings, censored recommendations
Vaccine hoarding could lead to deadly new vaccine resistant variants
By cathshaffer
By failing to equitably distribute Covid-19 vaccines to lower- and middle-income countries, wealthier nations are setting the stage for a pandemic that never ends
Ghost stories tell us more about ourselves than the supernatural creatures they describe
By Melanie Trecek-King
Resorting to the supernatural to explain the unexplainable is a failure of imagination
FDA authorizes Pfizer Covid-19 for emergency use in children between 5 and 11
By Julia Conley
Young children should receive one-third of the adult dose in two vaccinations administered three weeks apart, agency says
History shows that being required to be vaccinated is the only way some people will ever do so
By James Colgrove
Eliminating community spread of diseases requires mandates, something that was never politicized until today
Just a few months after their rollout, covid vaccines had already saved over 100,000 lives
By Sumedha Gupta
Rural Americans are dying of covid at twice the rate of their urban counterparts
By Lauren Weber
Due to significantly lower acceptance of covid vaccines, rural mortality rates are now more than double urban rates — and accelerating quickly
Want to ‘do your own research’ on vaccines or anything else? First realize what research actually means
By Melanie Trecek-King
In order to credibly dispute the conclusions of experts, you have to be one yourself
Yes, the evidence shows that (surgical) masks work against the coronavirus
By Laura H. Kwong
As the Covid-19 pandemic wears on, it’s vital to keep in mind that surgical masks are an important part of stopping infections
Vaccine hoarding by wealthy nations could lead to 100 million doses going to waste
By Andrea Germanos
While rich nations consider triple doses, less than 2 percent of people in poor countries have been vaccinated
Mississippi Gov. clumsily tries to defend inaction despite large spike in Covid deaths
By Lauren Floyd
As Covid kills thousands of his citizens, Mississippi’s GOP governor refuses to do more