vaccination

In the 1800s, they helped lay the groundwork for the anti-vaccine movement.

Even so, many diseases have been tamed. Will Covid-19 be next?

As the country scrambles to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, the process has been hindered by many of the same issues that impeded other mass vaccination rollouts.

Enslaved children were used in medical trials for early smallpox vaccines. They have been forgotten.

Government investment into a cancer vaccine had drawbacks.

Like so many black scientists past, the African who brought inoculation to the American colonies never got his due.

“America First” is a fairly useless strategy in the quest for a COVID-19 vaccine.

Dr. Larry Brilliant, who helped eradicate smallpox, says past epidemics can teach us to fight coronavirus.

We’re still dealing with the repercussions of a discredited 1998 study that sowed fear and skepticism about vaccines.

Charles Schulz used his culturally monolithic comic strip to advocate for public health. But his approach had some serious shortcomings.

A review of three recent books that delve into the history and science of vaccines and immunity, and the anxieties that accompany them.

To better understand the controversy over New York’s measles outbreak, you have to go back to the late 19th century.

During the 1898-1904 pox epidemic, public health officials and policemen forced thousands of Americans to be vaccinated against their will.

The COVID-19 pandemic affected us in millions of ways. But it evades the meanings we want it to bear.

The following piece presents an incomplete timeline of the sociological production of the end of the pandemic over the last year.

Governors Ron DeSantis and Gretchen Whitmer took opposite approaches to covid in swing states — but each sailed to reelection.

Harm reduction strategies, like those pioneered by queer men of color, have the best chance of stopping this disease.

The world is still reeling from the pandemic, but another scourge we thought we’d eliminated has reemerged.

Vaccine skepticism and misinformation have persisted since the smallpox epidemics. With the internet, it's only gotten worse.

The past provides a key lesson to minimize the damage from the omicron surge.