Congress Must Pass Funding for More Covid Research

Political opponents are usually too quick to label each other “anti-science.” But the label is entirely deserved when it comes to the US Congress, which has spent months denying a White House request for billions in additional Covid-19 research funds.

There’s still so much to learn about the pandemic. Are grocery stores major centers of disease spread? Gyms? Many people still prefer surgical masks to N95s — but do they work? Does social distancing still matter — and in which settings? Why have some people never gotten infected? Do third shots and fourth boosters make people less likely to transmit the virus?