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What have we learned from COVID-19 vaccine efforts?
The race for COVID-19 vaccines won’t be the last vaccine race we’ll see. Vaccines for HIV are in the pipeline,…
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Covering a ‘twindemic:’ Flu, COVID-19 share at least one season
A “twindemic” is what infectious disease experts are calling the possibility that both the COVID-19 and influenza viruses will sicken…
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Finding data that can bolster your pandemic reporting
Ever since John Snow pieced together how cholera spread from a water pump in London in 1854, data has been…
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COVID relief bill bans some surprise medical bills, but not all
Leaders of both political parties in the U.S. House and Senate reached agreement Sunday to pass a $900 billion bill…
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New resources for covering inequities in insurance, care during pandemic
Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D., is afraid of needles. Nevertheless, she agreed to receive her coronavirus vaccine on national television last…
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Coronavirus pandemic highlights disparities in health insurance and health care
News about Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine was so big in December that video crews recorded what would be an otherwise mundane…
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AHCJ names 2020 National Cancer Reporting Fellows
Twelve journalists have been chosen for the 2020 class of the National Cancer Reporting Fellowship. The program is supported by…
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AHCJ names 2020 National Cancer Reporting Fellows
Twelve journalists have been chosen for the 2020 class of the National Cancer Reporting Fellowship. The program is supported by…
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As nursing home death and infection rates rise, how is isolation affecting seniors?
As the U.S. enters what experts predict may be the most severe months yet of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number…
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Who is Jeffrey Zients, the soon-to-be White House coronavirus czar?
As President-elect Joe Biden develops a strategy for ending the pandemic, the person who will be in charge of executing…
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