Aaron E. Carroll

A study makes a leap to causality, but it’s not as if racism stopped: We should be careful about blaming a single incident in the past.

With the coronavirus ebbing, people can’t rely on the C.D.C. to answer all their questions. That’s OK.

Normal has never meant “perfectly safe.” A safer world will likely still have Covid-19 in it.

We should expect some people to experience side effects. The shot is still safer than the disease.

It’s unmitigated good news. But it would be a tragic mistake to relax our vigilance right away.

The key to slowing down the spread of coronavirus infections is to have few, if any, close contacts. There’s just no getting around it.

We aren’t very good at discussing trade-offs, but we need to make some during this pandemic.

We could test saliva. We could test groups of samples at once. We could even let people test themselves. These tests aren’t perfect, but that’s not the point.

The way forward in the coronavirus crisis keeps getting framed as a false choice between saving lives or the economy.

Leaders are overestimating how far we’ve come and are underestimating what it will take to manage Covid-19 in a near-normal world.