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For months, I have been making the case that vaccine requirements are necessary to reduce the spread of the coronavirus that has already claimed more than 755,000 American lives. We hold our individual freedom as sacrosanct, but the freedom to remain unvaccinated stops when people choose to be in public settings where they could infect others with a deadly disease. (Leana S. Wen, 11/10)

Health care, like politics, is local. The performance of certain procedures or the prevalence of particular conditions vary from community to community. So do individuals’ preferences on how they choose to obtain care. One thing that doesn’t vary as much is the trust people have in their providers. That’s why throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, apart from mandates, frontline clinicians broadly have had the greatest impact on influencing the adoption of Covid-19 vaccines. (Sanjula Jain and Jarrett Lewis, 11/10)

Socialized medicine did not, as some predicted, collapse during Covid. Britain’s National Health Service was stretched to the limit but never overwhelmed. It’s the current phase of the pandemic that’s proving to be the bigger stress test. (Therese Raphael, 11/11)