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UKRAINE – 2021/03/28: In this photo illustration, Excelsior Pass app which provides digital proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative test results seen displayed on a smartphone screen in front of the US flag.<br />
The first COVID-19 vaccine passports’ in the US called the Excelsior Pass was launched on Friday in New York, reportedly by the media on 27 March. Excelsior Pass provides digital proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative test results of three types of passes: COVID-19 Vaccination Pass, COVID-19 PCR Test Pass, and COVID-19 Antigen Test Pass. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Calling proof of COVID-19 vaccination a ‘vaccine passport’ could be empowering conspiracy theorists

By David Z. Morris and Sy Mukherjee

CDC UK COVID variant

The CDC says this COVID variant is now the most dominant. And it hits younger people.

By David Z. Morris and Sy Mukherjee

Excitement over the ‘Coinbase effect’ is spilling over ahead of its stock market debut

By Robert Hackett and David Z. Morris

The Nycvaccinelist.com website appointment map on a laptop computer arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. With no federal website to help out, frustrated private individuals are increasingly creating Facebook groups and Twitter accounts to help friends and neighbors navigate a bewildering, disjointed maze of sites offering limited vaccine appointments. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg

How to find COVID vaccine appointments in all 50 states

By David Z. Morris

Marchers on a Gay Pride parade through Manhattan, New York City, carry a banner which reads ‘A.I.D.S.: We need research, not hysteria!’, June 1983. (Photo by Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

Buy a COVID vaccine, get an HIV vaccine for free?

By David Z. Morris and Sy Mukherjee

COVID vaccines developing world

How a cheaper, easier-to-make COVID vaccine could lift up the world

By David Z. Morris and Sy Mukherjee

Healthcare workers administer a flu shot during a drive-thru clinic at the Louisiana State Fairgrounds in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. Shreveport recently completed a test run for distributing an eventual coronavirus vaccine, using a community drive-thru clinic for flu shots. Photographer: Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Staying safe on Easter during a pandemic

By David Z. Morris and Sy Mukherjee

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – MARCH 30: CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky speaks to the press after visiting the Hynes Convention Center FEMA Mass Vaccination Site on March 30, 2021 in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Walensky recently said she had a sense of “impending doom” as the rate of coronavirus infection has recently been rising across the U.S. (Photo by Erin Clark-Pool/Getty Images)

Scientists protest CDC Director’s upbeat vaccine comments—but caution has its costs, too

By David Z. Morris

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – MARCH 30: CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky speaks to the press after visiting the Hynes Convention Center FEMA Mass Vaccination Site on March 30, 2021 in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Walensky recently said she had a sense of “impending doom” as the rate of coronavirus infection has recently been rising across the U.S. (Photo by Erin Clark-Pool/Getty Images)

It’s official: Vaccinated people don’t transmit COVID-19

By David Z. Morris and Sy Mukherjee

A man holds a sign that reads “Racism is a Virus” during the “We Are Not Silent” rally against anti-Asian hate in response to recent anti-Asian crime in the Chinatown-International District of Seattle, Washington on March 13, 2021. – Reports of attacks, primarily against Asian-American elders, have spiked in recent months — fuelled, activists believe, by talk of the “Chinese virus” by former president Donald Trump and others. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Happy Day of Trans Visibility

By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris

London, UNITED KINGDOM: British artist Damien Hirst poses during a photo call with a work entitled ‘Death Explained’, a divided shark in a formaldehyde solution, at the White Cube Gallery in London, 01 June 2007. Hirst unveiled his latest work entitled For the Love of God, a 50 million pound (74 million euro, 79 million dollar) diamond-encrusted human skull. Hirst covered the 18th Century skull entirely in 8,601 pave-set diamonds. AFP PHOTO/CHRIS YOUNG (Photo credit should read CHRIS YOUNG/AFP via Getty Images)

Biz Stone and Mark Cuban are backing an Instagram for NFTs

By David Z. Morris

Healthcare workers administer a flu shot during a drive-thru clinic at the Louisiana State Fairgrounds in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. Shreveport recently completed a test run for distributing an eventual coronavirus vaccine, using a community drive-thru clinic for flu shots. Photographer: Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Every adult in these states is eligible for a COVID vaccine this week

By David Z. Morris

A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority on March 24, 2021 shows a part of the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 400-metre- (1,300-foot-) long and 59-metre wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt’s Suez Canal. – A giant container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal after a gust of wind blew it off course, the vessel’s operator said on March 24, 2021, bringing marine traffic to a halt along one of the world’s busiest trade routes. (Photo by Suez Canal Authority/HO/AFP via Getty Images)

One scoop at a time

By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 28: CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey appears on a monitor as he testifies remotely during the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing ‘Does Section 230’s Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?’, on Capitol Hill, October 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey; CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google LLC, Sundar Pichai; and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg all testified virtually at the hearing. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act guarantees that tech companies can not be sued for content on their platforms, but the Justice Department has suggested limiting this legislation. (Photo by Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Can selling tweets help create the next Discord?

By Robert Hackett and David Z. Morris

A man holds a sign that reads “Racism is a Virus” during the “We Are Not Silent” rally against anti-Asian hate in response to recent anti-Asian crime in the Chinatown-International District of Seattle, Washington on March 13, 2021. – Reports of attacks, primarily against Asian-American elders, have spiked in recent months — fuelled, activists believe, by talk of the “Chinese virus” by former president Donald Trump and others. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

1955 Capital’s Andrew Chung on the Atlanta shootings, anti-Asian racism, and a very hard phone call to his father

By Ellen McGirt and David Z. Morris