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Unfortunately, the cry for “states’ rights” today often ends up endangering health, just as it did by perpetuating the systematic racial oppression that underlies so many of today’s health inequities. (Wendy E. Parmet, 10/19)

Researchers at Boston University sparked alarming headlines this week by creating a more lethal version of the omicron Covid variant. (Faye Flam, 10/19)

We are nearly three years into the Covid-19 pandemic, a health crisis so long, disruptive and deadly, it should have transformed the country’s preparation for the next public health emergency. Sadly, it has not. We say this as members of President Biden’s Covid advisory board in the weeks before he took office. We have since followed and been part of the public health response to the pandemic. We are deeply dismayed by what has been left undone. (Ezekiel J. Emanuel, David Michaels, Rick Bright and Michael T. Osterholm, 10/19)

Winter is coming, and so are new COVID-19 variants. Based on the last two years, expect a botched national response when, not if, the winter surge comes. (Dipti S. Barot, 10/20)

It's becoming clearer that, even in the unlikely event that we somehow, someday manage to eradicate COVID-19 and its many variants, we can't wipe clean the enormous toll the virus has taken. (10/19)