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What AI Can and Cannot Do in Biosecurity

Katelyn Jetelina Your Local Epidemiologist
AI is fundamentally changing everything from how we do good and important public health and health care work to how we develop biosurveillance systems that keep pace with the rapid escalation of capabilities enabled by this technology.

Abandoning mRNA Is a Dangerous Decision

Rick Bright The New York Times
If the United States abandons mRNA, it will not simply be forfeiting a public health advantage. It will be ceding a strategic asset. In national security terms, mRNA is the equivalent of a missile defense system for biology.

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28 Years Later and the Social Life of Catastrophe

Eileen Jones Jacobin
The latest installment of the 28 Days Later franchise returns with more than zombies — it explores the strange new norms that follow collapse. It’s a vision of survival horror that focuses not just on the infected but on the ways humanity adapts.

Make America Diseased Again?

Sarah Zhang The Atlantic
RFK, Jr.'s nomination normalizes and emboldens the anti-vaccine movement. The danger now is that diseases confined to the past become diseases of the future.
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