A WEEK AGO, the CDC’s acting director signed off on the recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an external panel that sets US vaccine policy. The […]
Shira Doron
Posted inOpinion
Moving on from COVID, last mitigation measure is gone
Every policy has both upsides and downsides, and isolation policy is no exception. At this stage, the scales are tilted far more to the harms of the policy than the benefits.
Posted inOpinion
Time to come clean about COVID-19
RATES OF COVID-19 vaccination in this country are too low. Less than half of those over 65 have received a second booster and, among children under 5, the rate of […]
Posted inHealth, Opinion
An epidemiologist’s advice for living with COVID
IT SEEMS LIKE a pretty simple question: Have we reached the point where COVID-19 has become less lethal than the flu? But if you ask a group of public health/infectious […]
Posted inHealth, Health Care, Opinion
We need to bring civility back to science and the COVID debate
IT HAS BEEN a year since we learned the news of an outbreak of breakthrough COVID-19 infections in vaccinated individuals who attended Fourth of July festivities in Provincetown. For me […]
Posted inOpinion
Why lifting mask mandates is so divisive
ON FRIDAY, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance for the first time since July—including for schools, where the debate on whether to mandate them […]
Posted inHealth Care, Opinion
A roadmap for mask rules in Massachusetts schools
ON AUGUST 24, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education approved a proposal by the commissioner of education to implement a mask mandate for Massachusetts schools that will last until […]