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The Statue of Liberty is seen at sunset through haze caused by smoke from Canadian wildfires, as viewed from Brooklyn, New York, August 5, 2025.

New York City Hospital Staff Learn Planet-Friendly Health Care

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The largest municipal health system in the United States is training clinicians to discuss climate risks with patients

How Overdose Prevention Centers Became Political Scapegoats

How Overdose Prevention Centers Became Political Scapegoats

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Although some politicians blame harm reduction efforts for societal problems, others view them as lifesaving solutions

Harlem to Harare

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Dr. Mary Bassett on how her upbringing and decades in Africa influenced her thinking about health in the United States

Harlem to Harare

New Polio Cases Highlight the Urgency of Eradication

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Global efforts need to finish the job

New Polio Cases Highlight the Urgency of Eradication

One Year From the Front Lines of COVID-19 in New York City

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Frontline providers found a solution to communication breakdown during the pandemic: talking to each other

Healthcare workers walk through Mount Sinai Hospital as the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in New York, U.S., April 5, 2020.

Back to Basics After COVID-19

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Investing in Primary Care Now Will Prepare the U.S. for the Next Pandemic

Addressing pandemic preparedness after COVID-19 will require going deeper than the surface. Here a worker sanitizes surfaces inside the Inox Leisure movie theatre in Mumbai, India, October 13, 2020. The photo is striking, showing a worker spraying disinfectant wearing a blue suit descending down a theater staircase where all the seats and carpet are bright red. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni

Age in the Age of COVID-19

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Ageism and the opportunity to be different

A resident named Mrs. Oury reacts as her daughters wave behind a glass during a visit at "Les Figuiers" retirement home amid the coronavirus outbreak in Villeneuve-Loubet, France, on April 23, 2020. The photo shows a woman from behind glass while two others stand with their backs to the camera looking in. They all have their hands up. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

COVID-19 This Week—The Looming Question: Internal Travel Restrictions

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To reduce risk, we must close bars and other indoor spaces, reduce crowds, mask up, wash hands, and increase distancing

Each state's progress towards reduction in symptoms and cases, health system readiness, and increased testing. The image shows a map of the united states with four colors according to outbreak status. SOURCE: Covid Exit Strategy

COVID-19 This Week: The Tide Is Beginning to Turn, But Is Still Very High

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The better we understand coronavirus, our risk, and our response with real-time intelligence, the better we can fight it

Share of COVID-19 tests that are positive globally. The image is a graph. CC-BY/Our World in Data

COVID-19 This Week: On the Brink

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The United States is a global outlier—a long way from vaccines or containment, even as we consider reopening schools

Chairs are pictured on top of tables in a classroom at Watlington Primary School during the last day of school, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Watlington, Britain, on July 17, 2020. The photo shows a number of tables with chairs stacked upon them. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Coronavirus Epidemiology This Week

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We won't stop COVID-19 until we focus on the data that matter

The image shows a heat map of the United States with states colored according to the higher number of tests coming back positive

One Weak Link and the Whole Thing Falls Apart

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A more structured, uniform, and comprehensive U.S. approach is needed to collect, report, and analyze coronavirus data

Data reporting exists but is "woefully inadequate and regrettably incomplete," like these mostly empty COVID-19 testing kits at the CDC serology testing site in Washington, DC, on June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner