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Omicron may be less dangerous on an individual level, but hospitals are still overwhelmed, with dire ripple effects.

As unvaccinated patients overwhelm hospitals, health-care workers are being pushed to the edge.

Many vaccine-hesitant people worry about adverse health effects. They shouldn’t.

Clayton Dalton on being a physician and writer.

Mindfulness helped this ER doctor through a dark time. It can help us through these times.

Celebrating healthcare workers as ‘heroes’ obscures the systemic failures that forced us to fill the gap.

We want coronavirus tests to give us the all-clear. But, in medicine, test results are clues, not answers—and no test is perfect.

We still don’t know, and it doesn’t really matter right now; it’s plenty deadly.

To cope with the unimaginable, doctors are becoming numbingly familiar with mass death.

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