Robert Bazell
How the Drug Industry Has Exploited Reforms Started in the Fight Against AIDS
A dangerous side effect of medical progress.
COVID Experts: We’re Putting Out Campfires but the Forest Fire Rages
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . After I got my second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, a wave of euphoria infused me along with the modified messenger RNA. Many friends describe the same feeling. This is the end of the pandemic for me. Life returns to normal. But then […]
We Don’t Have to Despair
Medical research director Eric Topol sees light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel.
The Case for Rapid At-Home COVID Testing for Everyone
The time it takes to ship COVID test samples to central labs and back is a burden—people risk infection as they wait days, sometimes weeks, for results.Photograph by MIA Studio / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Imagine that every morning your child and her classmates take a […]
Steven Pinker on the Tribal Roots of Defying Social Distancing
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The images are everywhere: People crowded face-to-face in swimming pools, shoulder-to-shoulder in indoor bars, cheering without masks at a rally held by President Trump, who often downplays the global pandemic. Now, as many public health experts predicted, waves of new COVID-19 infections […]
No Country for Old People
The COVID-19 death rate in Sweden has exposed worldwide bias against the elderly.
Why People Feel Misinformed, Confused, and Terrified About the Pandemic
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . When I worked as a TV reporter covering health and science, I would often be recognized in public places. For the most part, the interactions were brief hellos or compliments. Two periods of time stand out when significant numbers of those who […]
Straight Talk About a COVID-19 Vaccine
There are many challenges to developing a vaccine that will be successful against COVID-19.eamesBot / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Wayne Koff is one of the world’s experts on vaccine development, the president and CEO of the Human Vaccines Project. He possesses a deep understanding of the […]
Can a Battery of New COVID Tests Stem the US Debacle?
Medical testing has been a Pearl Harbor. But the war could be won.
Be Wary of a Model That Shows a Decline in COVID-19 Deaths
We have no idea what will happen if, for example, New York runs out of ventilators or if people are sent away from hospitals too soon and infect many others.Illustration by eamesBot / Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . On April 15, 2020, 2,271 people in the United […]