EditorialDr. Ashish Jha, the Biden administration?s pandemic response coordinator, fields questions at the White House in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. (Cheriss May/The New York Times)
EditorialAn infectious diseases research team catches bats for a study outside the Khao Chong Phran Cave in Ratchaburi, Thailand, Dec. 11, 2020. (Adam Dean/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Sherif Zaki, a pathologist, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Sept. 25, 2006. (Jessica McGowan/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in Washington, July 20, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times)
EditorialHoward Hughes Medical Institute President Purnell Choppin, left, with colleagues in Chevy Chase, Md., on Oct. 28, 1994. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in Boston, Feb. 13, 2021. (Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Donald Trump departs the Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., after testing positive for COVID-19 and spending four days at the facility, on Oct. 5, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialIn a photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, recently dead freshwater mussels from the Clinch River near Wallen Bend, Tenn., Oct. 17, 2019. (Meagan Racey/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via The New York Times)