EditorialCOVID-19 testing booths for incoming passengers at the Hongqiao Railway Station in Shanghai, China, Dec. 8, 2022. (Qilai Shen/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer administers the new covid booster shot for Ethel Brown at Riverdale nursing home in the Bronx borough of New York on Wednesday, Sept 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer administers the new covid booster shot for Ethel Brown at Riverdale nursing home in the Bronx borough of New York on Wednesday, Sept 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialBecause of Xi Jinping’s unrelenting policy, the Chinese people put up with a precarious existence filled with lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing. (Xinmei Liu/The New York Times)
EditorialA Jackson County Health Department nurse administers a COVID-19 test in Independence, Mo. on July 13, 2022. (Christopher Smith/The New York Times)
EditorialA vaccination site at Taipei Main Station in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Taiwan is focusing more on vaccinations and less on quarantines and contact tracing. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times)
EditorialPrincipal Harrison Bailey III sits for a portrait in his office at Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pa. on Nov. 17, 2021. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialThis roller coaster of a summer did not care about your travel plans. These tales of chaos from the road, from to fishy explosions to surprise quarantines, could have only happened in 2021. (Tallulah Fontaine/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Andrew Wollowitz, the chief of emergency medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, quarantines at home in Mamaroneck, N.Y., April 5, 2021. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople outside a COVID-19 testing site at the Kohl Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in Madison, Wis., Feb. 1, 2021. (Lauren Justice/The New York Times)
EditorialHeather Willie, a Navajo woman, quarantines in a hotel after testing positive for Covid-19 in Gallup, N.M., Nov. 20, 2020. (Adam Ferguson/The New York Times)
EditorialChristmas decorations at Covent Garden, which is normally packed with holiday shoppers, in London on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialA mobile app to enforce quarantines was only one pillar of South Korea’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. (Woohae Cho/The New York Times)
EditorialJohn Faldetta, a building manager in New York, created a fogging machine to disinfect his staffers, May 5, 2020. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople demonstrate against pandemic quarantines outside the Washington State Capitol in Olympia, April 19, 2020. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialLinda Quinn, 81, who has been isolating herself against the coronavirus for more than a week, with her laptop in her backyard, in Bellevue, Wash., March 24, 2020. (Christian Sorensen Hansen/The New York Times)
EditorialNational Guard troops at a drive-through coronavirus test site at Bergen Community College in Paramus, N.J., March 20, 2020. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the National Guard help disinfect the Jewish Community Center of Mid-Westchester in Scarsdale, N.Y., March 16, 2020. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Grand Princess cruise ship, carrying passengers infected with the coronavirus, is seen off the coast of San Francisco, March 8, 2020. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialDoctors are assisted into protective suits before treating Ebola patients in Mateneh, Sierra Leone, Feb. 24, 2015. (Bryan Denton/The New York Times)