COVID-19

Inequality’s deadly toll
Nature, 2021
A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can COVID push science to finally address the issue?

As pandemic raged, global south lacked vaccines. Never again, researchers vow.
Washington Post, 2023

Brazil’s favelas offer lessons in Building Trust
New York Times Opinion, 2023

Seven radical changes to fortify the US against the next pandemic
Washington Post Opinion, 2023

Covid origin data from the Wuhan market must be made public
Washington Post Opinion, 2023

Moderna hearing shows government must drive a harder bargaining
Washington Post Opinion, 2023

Why isn’t the US Embracing This Pandemic Prevention Strategy
New York Times Opinion, 2022
Every region of the world must be able to make its own vaccines

Unseating Big Pharma: The radical plan for vaccine equity
Nature, 2022
Charity failed to provide adequate vaccines for the global south. Now, 15 countries are seeing whether an open-science model can end a dangerous dependency.

Desperate for Covid Care, Undocumented Immigrants Resort to Unproven Drugs
New York Times, 2021
Shut out from mainstream medicine, some immigrants are buying expensive, unproven Covid therapies from “wellness” clinics or turning to the black market.

Why some researchers oppose unrestricted sharing of coronavirus genome data
Nature, 2021
Global-south scientists say that an open-access movement led by wealthy nations deprives them of credit and undermines their efforts.

Has Covid taught us anything?
Nature, 2021
Researchers warn that plans to prevent the next global outbreak don’t consider the failures that fueled our current predicament

The fight to manufacture Covid vaccines in lower income countries
Nature, 2021

Q&A with Chelsea Clinton: Vaccine equity takes more than donations
Nature, 2021

The Covid lab-leak hypothesis: What scientists do and don’t know
Nature, 2021

Struggle to probe Covid’s origin amid sparse data from China
Nature, 2022

Wuhan market was pandemic epicentre, studies suggest
Nature, 2022

Covid boosters for wealthy nations spark outrage
Nature, 2021

Two decades of pandemic war games failed to account for Trump
Nature, 2020
Simulations foresaw leaky travel bans, a scramble for vaccines, and disputes between state and federal leadership, but none anticipated the current levels of dysfunction in the United States.

What a US exit from the WHO means for Covid-19 and global health 
Nature, 2020

Day Zero for COVID-19 USA: Seattle scientists find it’s not contained
Nature, 2020

Thousands of coronavirus tests are going unused
Nature, 2020

San Quentin prison declined free coronavirus tests and urgent advice – now it has a massive outbreak
Nature, 2020

Why the US is having a coronavirus data crisis
Nature, 2020

Without the luxury of a strong health system, many low-income countries are scrambling to contain the coronavirus
Nature, 2020

Ebola prepared these countries for coronavirus, but now they’re floundering
Nature, 2020

How blood from coronavirus survivors might save lives in New York City
Nature, 2020

These researchers are taking a gamble with antibody tests
Nature, 2020