Abraar Karan

Karan is an infectious disease physician and researcher at Stanford University

Recent Articles

Why Masks Still Matter

Masks work against not only COVID-19 but also the flu, RSV, and other respiratory viruses. We should still be using them

By Abraar Karan and Gavin Yamey

The Omicron Wave Is Receding But the Pandemic Is Far From Over

The U.S. has experienced a brutal winter wave of COVID-19, driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Daily deaths are higher today than they were during the peak of last fall’s Delta wave, and have...

By Gavin Yamey , Abraar Karan and Ranu Dhillon
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