Health and Wellness | Opinion

Nobody got Covid totally right. But the contrarians got it mostly wrong.

By David Wallace-Wells

If there’s a thread tying this coalition together, it’s suspicion of expertise and elitism.

By M. Anthony Mills

We’re in a national moment of great fear and suspicion. But the principles of psychoanalysis that can help feuding couples can also help us reconcile our differences.

By Orna Guralnik

Avian influenza might mutate to enable human-to-human transmission.

By David A. Kessler

What he did during a measles epidemic in Samoa shouldn’t be forgotten.

By Brian Deer

Why invoking a public health crisis too often can lead society astray.

By Jeneen Interlandi

As the nation’s top health official, he could discourage vaccine research and production, and dissuade Americans from getting shots.

By Michael T. Osterholm and Ezekiel J. Emanuel

The U.S. needs to reassure the world it has the outbreak under control.

By Tulio de Oliveira

Three states are calling on the federal courts for help in making women have more babies.

By Linda Greenhouse

Let’s not make child mortality great again.

By Zeynep Tufekci