William Petri

William Petri is Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia.

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9 Reasons You Can Be Optimistic That a Vaccine for COVID-19 Will Be Widely Available in 2021

Experts are confident that there will be a vaccine next year.

Editors' Picks

Project Implicit Reveals Your Hidden Prejudice

Professor Anthony Greenwald invented the Implicit Association Test that can tap into our implicit feelings about race. What happens when people take it?

Science & Technology

Teaching Pandemics Syllabus

Readings on the history of quarantine, contagious disease, viruses, infections, and epidemics offer important context for the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Science & Technology

How the Public Health Community Prepares for Pandemics

Public healthcare experts have been anticipating and planning for a pandemic like COVID-19 for years. These research reports and scholarly articles explain how.

Education & Society

Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus

How can we help students understand George Floyd's death in the context of institutionalized racism?

Arts & Culture

10 Classic Christmas Stories

We've gathered up some of our favorite literary takes on Christmas.

William Petri

9 Reasons You Can Be Optimistic That a Vaccine for COVID-19 Will Be Widely Available in 2021

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