Katherine J. Wu

Senior Producer at The Story Collider

staff writer @TheAtlantic, covering science. also senior producer @storycollider, senior editor @Open_Notebook. (she/her)

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HIV’s Most Promising Breakthrough Has Taken a Hit

6 days ago | theatlantic.com | Katherine J. Wu

Solving HIV vaccination—a puzzle that scientists have been tackling for decades without success—could be like cracking the code to a safe. The key, they now think, may be delivering a series of different shots in a specific sequence, iteratively training the body to produce a strong, broad immune response that will endure against the fast-mutating virus, ideally for a lifetime.
HIV’s Most Promising Breakthrough Has Taken a Hit

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Katherine J. Wu

1 day agoTrump Administration Cancels $600 Million Contract to Develop Bird Flu VaccineNEED TO KNOW The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has pulled $600 million in funding it had previously promised to pharmaceutical company Moderna to develop a vaccine for bird flu in humans, citing concerns about mRNA technology.
The Most Ingenious Hawk in New Jersey

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Katherine J. Wu

In November of 2021, Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first noticed a hawk using a pedestrian crosswalk. The bird—a young Cooper’s hawk, to be exact—wasn’t using the crosswalk, in the sense of treading on the painted white stripes to reach the other side of the road in West Orange, New Jersey. But it was using the crosswalk—more specifically, the pedestrian-crossing signal that people activate to keep traffic out of said crosswalk—to ambush prey.
The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Katherine J. Wu

In November of 2021, Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first noticed a hawk using a pedestrian crosswalk. The bird—a young Cooper’s hawk, to be exact—wasn’t using the crosswalk, in the sense of treading on the painted white stripes to reach the other side of the road in West Orange, New Jersey. But it was using the crosswalk—more specifically, the pedestrian-crossing signal that people activate to keep traffic out of said crosswalk—to ambush prey.
COVID Shots for Kids Are Over

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Katherine J. Wu

Long before he joined the FDA to run the center that regulates vaccines, Vinay Prasad argued against COVID shots for kids.
HHS Is Getting More Anti-Vax

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Katherine J. Wu

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine activism is not what you’d call subtle. For decades, he has questioned the safety and effectiveness of various childhood vaccines, insisting that some of them cause autism, lying about their ingredients, and dismissing troves of evidence that counter his views. However much he might deny it, Kennedy is “an old-school anti-vaxxer,” Dorit Reiss, an expert in vaccine law at UC Law San Francisco, told me.
The Neo-Anti-Vaxxers Are in Power Now

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Katherine J. Wu

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine activism is not what you’d call subtle. For decades, he has questioned the safety and effectiveness of various childhood vaccines, insisting that some of them cause autism, lying about their ingredients, and dismissing troves of evidence that counter his views. However much he might deny it, Kennedy is “an old-school anti-vaxxer,” Dorit Reiss, an expert in vaccine law at UC Law San Francisco, told me.
¿Podrías repetir eso? Cómo alejar a las fuentes científicas de la jerga

3 weeks ago | theopennotebook.com | Katherine J. Wu

Read in EnglishEste artículo fue traducido por Debbie Ponchner y editado por Rodrigo Pérez Ortega. Regina G. Barber es, según todos los datos oficiales, una persona muy inteligente. Barber es una de las copresentadoras del podcast científico de NPR Short Wave, además de tener un doctorado en física —y, en una vida pasada, fue profesora de física y astronomía en la Universidad de Western Washington—.
‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Katherine J. Wu

Matthew J. Memoli has had an exceptionally good year. At the beginning of January, Memoli was a relatively little-known flu researcher running a small lab at the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health.
‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Katherine J. Wu

One of the most notable things about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a federal agency tasked with “improving the health, safety, and well-being of America”—is how confidently he distorts the basics of health, safety, and well-being.