EditorialBelgium: Flagellants at Doornik (Tournai) seeking relief from the Black Death. Miniature painting from the Chronicle of Aegidius li Muisis by Pierart dou Tielt (fl. 1340-1360), c. 1353
EditorialFILE PHOTO: Etienne Ouamouno, father of Ebola patient zero, stands by the kapok tree where scientists say his two-year-old son might have contracted Ebola from bats in Meliandou
EditorialAngel Rivera is swabbed for a COVID-19 test by a health care worker at a community vaccination and testing site in the Mission District of San Francisco, Aug. 1, 2021. (Mike Kai Chen/The New York Times)
EditorialRon Klain, then newly appointed Ebola response coordinator, listens to former President Barack Obama during a meeting of the team coordinating the government’s response to the virus in the Oval Office of the White House, Oct. 22, 2014. (Jabin Botsford/The New York Times)
EditorialAlessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, with a risk map simulating the potential spread of the coronavirus from China to other parts of the world, in Boston, March 4, 2020. (Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times)