Gregg Gonsalves

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Gregg Gonsalves is The Nation’s public health correspondent and codirector of the Global Health Justice Partnership and an associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. A cofounder of the Treatment Action Group, he was the winner of a 2018 MacArthur fellowship.

Health and DiseaseMarch 16, 2023

The Self-Appointed Covid Experts Are At It Again

The armchair Covid quarterbacks are screaming some new tunes: Masks don’t work! Covid came from a lab! Here’s why we need to be cautious about trusting them.

Gregg Gonsalves
Health CareFebruary 16, 2023

The Fight for the Soul of American Medicine

More and more physicians are rejecting the forces of conservatism within their field and joining the grassroots movement to revolutionize American medicine.

Gregg Gonsalves
Health and DiseaseFebruary 9, 2023

The Shake-Up at the CDC Is an Opportunity We Can’t Afford to Miss

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has made plenty of mistakes, but her push to overhaul the agency deserves our full support.

Gregg Gonsalves
Health CareFebruary 2, 2023

Biden’s Ending of the Covid Emergency Is a Public Health Disaster

The White House is tearing away vital pandemic protections for millions of vulnerable Americans—and pretending that everything’s going to be just fine.

Gregg Gonsalves
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Executive BranchJanuary 26, 2023

While They “Have the Tools,” We Are Still Suffering and Dying in Our Thousands

In the Orwellian world of White House Covid messaging, some Americans are more equal than others.

Gregg Gonsalves
Media AnalysisJanuary 11, 2023

“The New Yorker” Goes All In on Our Precious Bodily Fluids

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the virus.

Gregg Gonsalves
Health CareJanuary 6, 2023

Why Are So Many People Dying? Reaping the Anti-Vaxx Whirlwind.

Though it was GOP politicians who first came for the Covid vaccines, not all vaccine resistance is partisan—or political.

Gregg Gonsalves
Health and DiseaseDecember 23, 2022

Another Very Covid Christmas

We enter a third holiday season in the pandemic. Has anything changed?

Camilo José Vergara and Gregg Gonsalves
Science and HealthDecember 1, 2022

Pandemic Year 3: Who’s Got the Power?

Has public health failed us? Or have we failed public health?

Gregg Gonsalves
Health CareOctober 20, 2022

The Death Eaters: Covid in the Liberal Imagination

A call to rescue public health from the dead hand of neutrality.

Gregg Gonsalves