New boosters are on the way

For the first time, we have an updated coronavirus vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration today authorized the first redesign of Covid vaccines since they were rolled out in late 2020. If all goes as expected, millions of Americans will be able to receive new...

How to protect against monkeypox as school starts

Written by Knvul Sheikh and Catherine PearsonAs children around the country head back to school for the third time since the COVID pandemic began, a different infectious disease is now spreading globally: monkeypox. Almost every single state and territory in the...

The Virus Within: How Misinformation Made the Pandemic Worse

As the pandemic raged in 2020, the White House Coronavirus Task Force scheduled frequent news briefings, some at the White House and others at the CDC or the National Institutes of Health. When the briefings were at the White House, where then-President Donald Trump...
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