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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  ## Alex Fitzpatrick Alex Fitzpatrick is a Senior Editor at TIME on the health and science desk.  ## Alex Fitzpatrick Articles 822Collections 16 *  Dec 14, 2021 ### [The 10 Best Video Games of 2021](https://time.com/6126797/best-video-games-2021/) [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 18, 2021 ### [Colin Powell's COVID-19 Death Is a Reminder of Risk](https://time.com/6108012/colin-powell-covid-19/) It's not just a 'pandemic of the vaccinated' [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Sep 20, 2021 ### [Why Apple's Health App Could Be the Sleeper Hit of iOS 15](https://time.com/6099217/apple-ios-15-health-app/) [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Jul 28, 2021 ### [I'm a Pandemic Dad Who's Been Covering COVID-19\. I Don't Know How to Think About the Risk Anymore](https://time.com/6084926/covid-19-risk-delta/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 26, 2021 ### [Can Employer Mandates Get More Americans Vaccinated? New York and California Are Finding Out](https://time.com/6084098/employer-vaccine-mandates/) [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Mar 9, 2021 ### [Having Trouble Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine? Try This Standby Site](https://time.com/5945095/dr-b-vaccine-standby-list/) [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Feb 22, 2021 ### [Baseball Stadiums, Theme Parks, Cathedrals: See the World's Makeshift COVID-19 Vaccination Hubs](https://time.com/5941463/covid-19-vaccination-sites/) From baseball stadiums and hockey rinks to cathedrals and bars [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Feb 2, 2021 ### [Why You Should Get Whichever COVID-19 Vaccine You Can](https://time.com/5935259/which-vaccine-to-get/) The best shot is the one that's in your arm [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Jan 29, 2021 ### [What the Capitol Attack, Impeachment and GameStop Have in Common](https://time.com/5934433/gamestop-capitol-attack-impeachment/) The year's most consequential events so far can be understood as a battle between the mobs and the m... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 25, 2021 ### [Why Has GameStop's Stock Gone Up So High Recently?](https://time.com/5933242/gamestop-stock-gme/) People claim to be making thousands on the 'meme stock.' But it's got to blow up eventually, right? [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jan 21, 2021 ### [Why Amazon's Move to Drop Parler Is a Big Deal](https://time.com/5929888/amazon-parler-aws/) The episode reveals the immense power held by Amazon's AWS and rival cloud services [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jan 15, 2021 ### [What if the Web Looked More Like Wikipedia?](https://time.com/5930061/wikipedia-birthday/) Wikipedia, which celebrates its 20th birthday on Jan. 15, lives on—and it's not just surviving, but ... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Nov 24, 2020 ### [Good U.S. Weather Allows for an Outdoor (and Safer) Thanksgiving](https://time.com/5915208/outdoor-thanksgiving/) But it's still safer to avoid inviting anybody over [SCIENCE](/section/science/) *  Nov 23, 2020 ### [A Single COVID-19 Test Can't Guarantee a Safe Thanksgiving](https://time.com/5914932/covid-test-thanksgiving/) You could be exposed on a Sunday, test negative the next day, but be contagious by Thursday [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Nov 20, 2020 ### [The 10 Best Video Games of 2020](https://time.com/5912417/best-video-games-2020/) From 'Spider-Man: Miles Morales' to 'Among Us' [BUSINESS](/section/business/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/alex-fitzpatrick/","name":"Alex Fitzpatrick"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/alex-fitzpatrick/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/alex-fitzpatrick/"},"name":"Alex Fitzpatrick","jobTitle":null,"description":"Alex Fitzpatrick is a Senior Editor at TIME on the health and science desk.","image":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e39534a2c884714/698938c34ee2628542312b09/a_fitzpatrick-web-resized.jpg?branch=production","url":"https://time.com/author/alex-fitzpatrick/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```