How the end of the CDC’s indoor masking recommendation may go down in history — Historians may come to see May 13, 2021, as the effective end of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. The date isn’t a milestone in a downward trend of deaths or disease. In fact, that week saw about 4,300 Covid-19 deaths, equating to about 225,000 deaths if the rate were…

Abby Cartus, PhD candidate in epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh and Justin Feldman, ScD, Health & Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard FXB Center A small number of scientists argue that the best way to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic is to lock down older and sicker people while letting those…

It is likely that people of color, immigrants, and the working class will bear a disproportionate burden of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. …

To find out, I analyzed data from The Guardian’s The Counted, which tracks law enforcement-related deaths in the United States. I calculated population size-adjusted rates for every county, then made the maps below. (Technical note: counties with low populations can throw off this kind of analysis, because a small county…