Covid-19

Covid’s Economic Mutations

The argument of Adam Tooze and Bruno Maçães’s recent books, that the pandemic was best handled by societies with top-down social control, hasn’t aged well.

March 10, 2022 issue

Sarah Jaffe

The Great Ungrieving

A million Americans have died from Covid-19. Yet the national task of mourning them has been outsourced and privatized, as the US goes on with business as usual.

April 22, 2022

Actors from the People’s Art Theater of Wuhan performing in a drama about medical staff fighting Covid-19 in Wuhan, September 2020

Ian Johnson

How China Beat Its Covid Crisis

China’s bureaucracy controlled the pandemic. But some Chinese see flaws in the authoritarian state.

November 5, 2020 issue

Justine van der Leun

Confinement and Contagion

How coronavirus has made those in women’s prisons more vulnerable

October 8, 2020 issue

Ed Vulliamy

Will Covid Change Italy?

September 24, 2020 issue

Didier William: Dancing, Pouring, Crackling and Mourning, 2015

Edwidge Danticat

Mourning in Place

It’s hard to figure out how to mourn during a pandemic. Our mourning rituals have all been disrupted or taken away.

September 24, 2020 issue

Jennifer Haller, the first person to be injected in a clinical trial of a potential vaccine for Covid-19, Seattle, March 2020

Carl Elliott

An Ethical Path to a Covid Vaccine

Many idealistic young people seem willing to risk their health for the common good. The question is how to make Phase I studies safe and fair.

July 2, 2020 issue

A socially distanced courtroom in Los Angeles, April 21, 2020

Jed S. Rakoff

Covid & the Courts

May 28, 2020 issue

The Latest

Judith Levine

Name the Lost!

A memorial in Green-Wood Cemetery for New Yorkers who have died of Covid-19 is intended to be ephemeral.

May 21, 2023

Willa Glickman

‘A Wakeup Call from Hell’

By striking for safe staffing levels, New York City nurses joined a wave of labor unrest that has swept the health care industry in response to Covid-19.

March 1, 2023

Kim Phillips-Fein

‘My High-Income Earners’

Eric Adams’s austere fiscal policy seems designed to reassure the wealthy that they will not have to pay their share of New York’s bills.

December 20, 2022

Vincent Bevins

Bigger than Bolsonaro

After four years in power, a movement created by elite campaigns has built a mass base.

October 28, 2022

Sarah Schulman

The Same Problem on Repeat

Monkeypox is now, with Covid-19 and HIV, one of the viruses at the center of American life. Yet even now that preventive treatments for all three exist, the US has failed to help people access them.

September 4, 2022

Mark Honigsbaum

The Deep Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy

Understanding the battle over immunization—from the pre-Victorian era onward—between public health and the people may help in treating anti-vax sentiment.

December 14, 2021

Atul Dev

Modi’s Folly

His citizens are dying in thousands for lack of basic medical care, yet India’s leader is pressing ahead with a self-aggrandizing makeover of New Delhi.

May 10, 2021

Michelle Chen

Chinatown’s Long Covid

A younger generation tackles the latest, greatest threat to the historic district’s survival.

March 4, 2021

Timothy Snyder

What Ails America

Although I did not understand this then, I had a severe infection in my liver. I was in a condition known as sepsis; death was close.

September 3, 2020

Diane Ravitch

How Trump Politicized Schools Reopening

One of the most difficult issues of the pandemic is when and how schools should reopen. And the situation is made even more challenging because the Trump administration has politicized decision-making and even the CDC itself.

July 30, 2020