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Covid 19

Science Health

The Global Dream Lab

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Nov 2021 Permalink

Travel

I Fell in Love With Motorcycles. But Could I Ever Love Sturgis?

A New Yorker who started riding during the pandemic travels to the heart of biker culture.

Jamie Lauren Keiles New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 15min Permalink

Health Media

Vermont Publishing House Chelsea Green Is Peddling Coronavirus Misinformation

Inside a quirky indie publisher’s turn to Covid trutherism

Chelsea Edgar Seven Days Sep 2021 25min Permalink

Travel

We Went to Vegas to Wring Joy From Heartbreak

The writer and his oldest friends reunited to mourn the ones they lost—and honor the time they have left.

Mitchell S. Jackson The New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink

Politics Health

When Public Health Becomes the Public Enemy

In the West, organized extremists are driving community health officials out of their jobs.

Jane C. Hu High Country News Sep 2021 25min Permalink

Sports Travel

I Had a Chance to Travel Anywhere. Why Did I Pick Spokane?

Increasingly worn down by the pandemic, a dad goes to a baseball game.

Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 Permalink

The Tragedy of America’s Rural Schools

Outdated textbooks, not enough teachers, no ventilation — for millions of kids like Harvey Ellington, the public-education system has failed them their whole lives.

Casey Parks New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 40min Permalink

Health

Twelve hours in a Florida COVID-19 ICU

On this ward at Morton Plant Hospital, nurses are overwhelmed by the number of new, desperate cases.

Lane DeGregory Tampa Bay Times Sep 2021 20min Permalink

Business

The Amazon That Customers Don't See

Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched.

Jodi Kantor, Karen Weise, Grace Ashford New York Times Jun 2021 50min Permalink

Crime

Do These 4,000 Federal Inmates Belong Behind Bars?

Covid allowed Raquel Esquivel and 4,500 others to be released from overcrowded federal prisons. So why is she back behind bars?

Jamie Roth Insider Aug 2021 25min Permalink

Best Article Health

On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic

On losing your Beloved in 2020.

Jesmyn Ward Vanity Fair Sep 2020 10min Permalink

Health

The Kids Are Alright

Why now is the time to rethink COVID safety protocols for children—and everyone else.

David Wallace-Wells New York Jul 2021 40min Permalink

Science

The Lab Leak Theory Doesn’t Hold Up

The rush to find a conspiracy around the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins is driven by narrative, not evidence.

Justin Ling Foreign Policy Jun 2021 20min Permalink

Health

A Broken System: The Number of Indigenous People Who Died from Coronavirus May Never Be Known

From medical health privacy laws to a maze of siloed information systems, the true impact of COVID-19 on American Indian and Alaska Natives is impossible to calculate.

Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Sunnie Clahchischiligi, Christine Trudeau High Country News, Indian Country Today, National Native News, Searchlight New Mexico Jun 2021 Permalink

Politics Science

The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins

Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.

Katherine Eban Vanity Fair Jun 2021 50min Permalink

Science

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

Droplets v. aerosols.

Megan Molteni Wired May 2021 20min Permalink

Health

‘I Feel Like I’m Just Drowning’: Sophomore Year in a Pandemic

A group of high school students try desperately to make it through an isolated and dire year.

Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine May 2021 50min Permalink

Science Health

Inequality’s Deadly Toll

A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can COVID push science to finally address the issue?

Amy Maxmen Nature Apr 2021 25min Permalink

Health Media

The COVID Reporters Are Not Okay. Extremely Not Okay.

A cohort of journalists is drowning in burnout, trauma, and moral injury.

Olivia Messer Study Hall May 2021 Permalink

Science Health

In the Tales Told by Sewage, Public Health and Privacy Collide

Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in America. Will Covid change that?

Miranda Weiss Undark Apr 2021 25min Permalink

Music

All Together Now

What will it take to get the world’s choral musicians back together again?

Kim Tingley The New York Times Magazine Apr 2021 25min Permalink

Health

When the Pandemic Came to Sullivan Prison

As one blockmate after another fell ill, we tried to stay safe and care for one another. It wasn’t always enough.

John J. Lennon The New York Times Magazine Apr 2021 30min Permalink

Science World

Lab Leak: A Scientific Debate Mired in Politics—and Unresolved

More than a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, some scientists say the possibility of a lab leak never got a fair look.

Charles Schmidt Undark Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Politics Health

The Covid Queen of South Dakota

A dispatch from the pandemic under Governor Kristi Noem.

Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Mar 2021 30min Permalink

Health

How the West Lost COVID

How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?

David Wallace-Wells New York Mar 2021 30min Permalink

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