If you think vaccination is an ordeal now, consider the 18th century version. After having pus from a smallpox boil scratched into your arm, you would be subject to three weeks of fever, sweats, chills, bleeding and purging with dangerous medicines, accompanied by hymns, prayers and hell-fire sermons by dour preachers - Arthur Allen

The challenge now is to work out which of these events are actually linked to the vaccine - Ariana Remmel

Post-immunization cases, sometimes called “breakthroughs,” are very rare and very expected - Katherine J. Wu

Though the science on the effectiveness of masks for reducing the spread of the coronavirus is more established now than it was early in the pandemic, mandatory masking is still a new and contentious idea - Lois Parshley

It’s a genuine public health conundrum. A mandate needs to lead to more people getting the shot than otherwise would, not fewer - German Lopez

Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health -The Great Barrington Declaration

Distance means so little, when life means so much ― Amit Kalantri

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes - Henry Cloud

One of the things that has made this virus so hard to contain is presymptomatic, silent spread. If you quarantine as soon as you have an exposure, you’ll prevent any forward transmission, and that’s the key to break the transmission chain - Abraar Karan

A woman’s health is her capital - Harriet Beecher Stowe

This is a novel diagnosis that doesn’t exactly have a name, doesn’t exactly have a timeline, doesn’t exactly have a protocol. We didn’t learn about this in medical school - Dr. Katie Schafer

Pediatricians are used to talking to nervous parents about vaccines, but they concede that the Covid shot poses unique persuasion challenges - Abby Goodnough and Jan Hoffman

Oh, it works. I thought so - Katalin Kariko MD

Myths which are believed in tend to become true - George Orwell

New vaccines are falling short of the spectacular expectations set by Pfizer and Moderna. The world still needs them - Sarah Zhang

Well, it’s fittingly a miscellaneous set of symptoms. It includes a bunch of different things that are usually seen with an overactive immune system - Sarah Zhang

The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities - Lucy McBride

The virus doesn’t know tribes, it doesn’t know boundaries, it just doesn’t know….And that, in some ways, is a dramatic reminder of how connected we are - Robert Waldinger