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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

How Yellowcake Shaped the West

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water, and people.

Jonathan Thompson High Country News Jul 2021 15min 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

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

Health

What the Bay Area Can Teach Us About Fighting a Pandemic

The region’s hyper-local response has lessons for us as we confront the winter wave and begin to distribute vaccines.

Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker Jan 2021 25min Permalink

Science Health

Covid's Cassandra: The Swift, Complicated Rise of Eric Feigl-Ding

He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?

Jane C. Hu Undark Nov 2020 Permalink

Health

Tainted Earth

In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.

Alexis Okeowo New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink

Health

The Message of Measles

Public-health officials are confronting dangerous ideas as much as a deadly disease.

Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Aug 2019 30min Permalink