Policy & Ethics

California children 12 years and older may soon be allowed to get COVID-19 vaccines without their parents' consent if Senate Bill 866 (SB866

Public health officials have tried desperately to answer this question for the better part of two years: how do you convince the intransigent minority of vaccine-hesitant Americans to roll up their sleeves and get a COVID shot?

But as I wrote back in October:

The Food and Drug Administration recently granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to Paxlovid and molnupiravir, two lifesaving, direct-acting antiviral drugs that are effective in preventing both hospitalization and death of people who have cont

We've all heard the argument, and it goes like this: misinformation drives millions of people into COVID denialism.

People will do a lot of things for money, but getting a COVID vaccine seems to be one of the rare exceptions.

The cryopreservation technology to freeze egg, sperm, and embryos was developed in the 1990s.

Any time I see the phrase "according to fact-checkers" in a headline, I can't help but roll my eyes.

Hoping to keep their cause alive in the wake of the pandemic, the anti-GMO movement has glommed on to a lab-leak origin story for SARS-CoV-2.

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