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Englewood resident Fannie Peeples gets a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Friend Health nurse Syreetta Stinson at the Peace House of I Grow Chicago, March 26, 2021. I Grow Chicago teamed with Friend Health to provide 150 vaccines, coffee and doughnuts at the event.

Cory Franklin and Robert Weinstein: The health of Americans is a big reason for our high COVID-19 death rate

March 20, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

For the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, and will continue to demonstrate in the future, that America is one of the unhealthiest countries in the industrialized world....

A masked pedestrian crosses a street in the Loop in 2022.

Cory Franklin and Robert Weinstein: What is a reasonable approach to masking right now?

February 28, 2023 at 2:09 p.m.

In medicine as elsewhere in life, if you ask the wrong question, you're likely to get the wrong answer. So if the question is, "Do masks worn outside medical settings...

Evan Berkowitz, right, from Infrastructure Engineering, and John Leavell, from Current Water, test wastewater for the presence of coronavirus variants July 21, 2022, on Chicago's Northwest Side.

Cory Franklin and Robert Weinstein: We need to boost COVID-19 surveillance to detect new viral variants

February 2, 2023 at 2:05 p.m.

In the 1967 film "The Graduate," the title character played by Dustin Hoffman attends a post-graduation party where a partygoer beckons him from the boisterous crowd and gives him a...

Nurse Kaitlyn Read checks on a COVID-19 patient's intravenous pumps at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego.

Cory Franklin and Robert Weinstein: US COVID-19 deaths are still high, but let’s learn from forecasters’ mistakes

January 3, 2023 at 1:58 p.m.

In a recent NFL game, the Indianapolis Colts led the Minnesota Vikings 33-0 at halftime. At that point, Las Vegas was offering odds better than 100-1 the Colts would win,...

Rebecca Bushway, with the help of 18-year-old student Erin Osterman, demonstrates the use of the environmentally friendly water purifier developed by students in her high school science class at Barrie School, in Silver Spring, Maryland, on April 21, 2022.

Cory Franklin and Robert Weinstein: American children need a higher-quality science education

November 30, 2022 at 4:01 p.m.

One of the most devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the debt it has created, a debt that we owe our kids that will be hard ever to...

Pre-kindergarten students work on an assignment on March 18, 2021, at West Orange Elementary School in Orange, California. The COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered classrooms set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year.

Cory Franklin and Robert Weinstein: COVID-19 will cause long-term devastation to our society on many fronts

November 8, 2022 at 2:37 p.m.

Halloween is over; Christmas beckons. "Monster Mash" is out; "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is in. Feel-good movies have replaced seasonal zombie and vampire flicks. In the U.S.,...

A purple hexagon marks a patient's room as positive for COVID-19 in the emergency department on Jan. 12, 2022, at Loretto Hospital in Chicago.

Cory Franklin and Robert Weinstein: Is the COVID-19 pandemic really over?

October 4, 2022 at 1:14 p.m.

President Joe Biden elucidated his thoughts on the status of the COVID-19 pandemic in an interview with "60 Minutes" last month. "The pandemic is over. ... We still have a...

New York City subway passengers wear protective masks Aug. 17, 2020.

Cory Franklin and Robert Weinstein: Reflecting on the missed opportunities of the COVID-19 pandemic

September 15, 2022 at 1:16 p.m.

With 2 1/2 years of COVID-19 experience behind us, we can now identify the missed opportunities the medical and public health communities had to control the pandemic. There are three...

Cory Franklin and Robert Weinstein: Herd immunity against COVID-19 is unlikely. But we aren’t powerless.

July 25, 2022 at 2:45 p.m.

"A man has got to know his limitations." That is one of the memorable phrases uttered by "Dirty Harry" Callahan, the fictional police inspector played by Clint Eastwood. Today, the...

A medical laboratory technician holds tests of suspected monkeypox samples at the microbiology laboratory of La Paz Hospital on June 6, 2022, in Madrid.

Cory Franklin and Robert Weinstein: The furtive messaging around monkeypox feels awfully familiar

July 6, 2022 at 3:20 p.m.

Have public health officials and the news media been less than candid in their explanations of the risk factors in the worldwide monkeypox outbreak? Are we seeing a replay of...

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