Kiera Butler
Senior editor at Mother Jones. My latest feature is on the surprisingly common yet little discussed birth injuries that moms suffer:
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How will we know if a COVID-19 vaccine is safe? Because scientists will tell us.
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Rest assured, the scientific community will not remain silent if there's any doubt.
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Kiera Butler How will we know if a COVID-19 vaccine is safe? Scientists will shout it from the rooftops. Thanks to for his great insights on this one. 92d
Why is Facebook giving pro-vaccine groups such a hard time?
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They have to jump through extra bureaucratic hurdles just to run their ads.
The "Great Barrington" plan for re-opening is championed as good for the poor. It's not.
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Don't be fooled.
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Kiera Butler You may have seen the "Great Barrington" plan for reopening going around. It may sound good, but don't be fooled. Thanks to and for unpacking this for me! 105d
Superspreader in Chief: The ultimate timeline of Trump's deadly coronavirus denial
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Nine months of failure, magical thinking, self-congratulation, and golf
"It affects virtually nobody": The three weeks of denial leading up to Trump's diagnosis
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It was even worse than you probably remember.
The terrifying story of how QAnon infiltrated moms' groups
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Plandemic, #savethechildren, and conspiracy thinking in Facebook and Instagram parent communities.
The US has reached the grim milestone of 200,000 COVID-19 deaths. We could have avoided it.
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Four experts explain how.
A simple plan to deal with COVID-19: free flu shots for all
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But so far Trump has not called for a comprehensive vaccination campaign.
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Kiera Butler Here's on the urgent need for a national free flu vaccine program. (With brilliant insight from !) 129d
She's taking the virus seriously. Her neighbors think it's a hoax.
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One Georgia parent's increasingly alienating experience of living in Paulding County.
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Kiera Butler I had a fascinating and unsettling conversation with a parent in Paulding County, Georgia, who is appalled by her neighbors' blasé attitude toward the virus. 152d
George W. Bush couldn't convince Americans to get vaccinated. Trump may do even worse.
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The stakes around vaccine messaging in 2020 are a lot higher than they were in 2002.
How our "balkanized" health care system made the pandemic far worse
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Harvard epidemiologist William Hanage has been a sharp critic of the US coronavirus response.
Teaching people how to spot bad science is a public health tool
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People had questions about COVID-19, so scientist Laurel Bristow took to Instagram to answer them.
Andy Slavitt on the 3 things he'd do to prepare for the next pandemic
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Obama's health care czar thinks we need a public health lobby. Badly.
The former head of the CDC has an audacious idea for handling the pandemic
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“Why wasn’t CDC allowed to do what it could have done?”
The selfish and unselfish case for sending scientists and doctors abroad
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There's an "interdependency between the global and the local."
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Kiera Butler We have been lucky to talk with a bunch of other superstars. makes the selfish and unselfish case for investing infectious disease work abroad: 7/10 190d
By investing in pre-k, we can create a generation of pandemic-resistant adults
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Public health leader David R. Williams: "Every dollar invested is a $17 return to society."
This celeb-endorsed self-help organization diverts people from prison—into something much weirder
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Does the celebrated Delancey Street program really work?
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Kiera Butler It was my absolute honor to edit 's brilliant investigation of the celebrated-yet-utterly-bizarre Delancey Street prison-alternative program: 199d
The anti-vax movement’s radical shift from crunchy granola purists to far-right crusaders
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The transition is supercharged by Trump and the coronavirus.
They built a utopian sanctuary in a Minneapolis hotel. Then they got evicted.
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The short life and sudden death of the Share-a-Ton.
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Kiera Butler They built a utopian sanctuary in a Minneapolis hotel. Then they got evicted. Read the incomparable on the burgeoning movement in her native city 224d
Anti-vaxxers have a dangerous theory called “natural immunity.” Now it’s going mainstream
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“Your body is an amazing being—it knows how to take care of itself."
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Kiera Butler I talked to experts who've observed a troubling trend: fringe-y antivax beliefs about the immune system making their way into the mainstream 255d