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Katherine J. Wu

Reporter · US

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Sep 11, 2026
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Jul 28, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Katherine J. Wu

    The AI Pandemic Isn’t On Its Way (opens the original)

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    Last month, a team of scientists published a high-profile paper describing how they’d taught an AI model to help produce brand-new, deadly viruses. The AI—a “genome-language model” trained on DNA sequences—had designed multiple new genomes that scientists then synthesized into functional viruses. And some of those viruses were capable of killing bacteria in a dish. News of AI-made viruses went over poorly. The loudest reaction to the study (which had been released as a preprint about a year ago)

  2. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Katherine J. Wu

    More American Families Are Refusing Vaccines (opens the original)

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    As millions of children around the country start another school year, they’ll be confronting new classes, new teachers, and, inevitably, a new slate of germs. And this fall, they’ll be more vulnerable to infectious disease than children have been in decades. Earlier this month, President Trump signed yet another executive order insisting that the United States shrink its schedule of recommended vaccines—federal guidance that currently guards Americans against 17 diseases with safe, effective sho

  3. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · Katherine J. Wu

    What Anthony Fauci Didn’t Say (opens the original)

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    Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. Sitting in front of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs today, Anthony Fauci twirled his pen. He huffed and straightened his shoulders. He glanced down at a set of papers. He muted and unmuted his microphone. But other than a brief initial statement, in which he referred to Chairman Rand Paul’s “unhinged obsession” with slandering his reputation and putting him in pri

  4. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Katherine J. Wu

    The Unmaking of Anthony Fauci (opens the original)

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    This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. When Anthony Fauci arrives on Capitol Hill tomorrow to testify before Congress, he will be trailed by a security detail he’s paying for himself. Fauci has been testifying before the nation’s elected officials for roughly four decades now, since his days at the forefront of early AIDS research. In years past, he would have prepped by consulting colleagues and poring over data—he would have been there, as he

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