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A worn-out mouth and nose protection mask lies thrown away on the street (Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images)

OANN's shocking misreading of CDC report

Matthew Rozsa
Influencer Girl blogger in medical mask talks about coronavirus (Getty Images)

Anti-vax rhetoric is spreading on Insta

Nicole Karlis
US President Joe Biden speaks before signing executive orders on health care, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 28, 2021. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden criticizes Trump vaccine contracts

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Man wearing a face mask looking out of a window (Getty Images)

CDC's new COVID-19 guidelines

Matthew Rozsa
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Families queue up in front of the entrance to the Opel Zoo before its reopening. The extensive measures to protect against infection with the corona virus have been relaxed somewhat in Hesse. On the first opening day after the lockdown, the rush was great. (Arne Dedert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

GOP govs are rolling back restrictions

Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Scientific integrity at a crossroads

Augusta Wilson - Undark
Coronavirus and blood cells (Getty Images)

How COVID deranges the immune system

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
No Leg Room On Airplane (Getty Images)

There's no "right to recline"

Michael Heller, James Salzman
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A highway worker tries to shield himself while walking to his truck in Lubbock, Texas. (John Weast/Getty Images)

Gene makes some resilient to cold temps

Victoria Wyckelsma, Peter John Houweling - The Conversation
Time lost in the COVID-19 pandemic year (Getty Images)

A history of how pandemics change us

Matthew Rozsa
Rules of Estrangement by Joshua Coleman (Photo illustration by Salon/Terry Riggins/Harmony)

When adult children become estranged

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A group of demonstrators display signs during a pro-life rally outside the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Center (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)

States aim to chip away at Roe v. Wade

Justin Franz - KFF Health News
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Second-grade pupils wear face masks as they attend school lessons (INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

Are schools safe? Teachers are terrified

Bob Hennelly
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Is it time to control cigarette-makers?

Joshua M. Pearce - The Conversation
Pink symmetrical image of portrait sculpture of Giuliano de' Medici created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 16 century (Getty Images)

Why narcissism can be contagious

Matthew Rozsa
A blister pack of Ketamine lozenges at the psychedelic therapy clinic | Girl with recreation drug on tongue (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

When psychedelic drugs get medicalized

Jonathan Dickinson, Dimitri Mugianis
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, left, listens as State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs speaks about the state's continued efforts in dealing with COVID-19 (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi lifts COVID restrictions

Adam Mahoney - Grist
A photo taken on February 12, 2021 shows a box of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine at the university hospital, at the start of the inoculation with the AstraZeneca vaccine at the hospital, in Halle/Saale, eastern Germany. (JENS SCHLUETER/AFP via Getty Images)

Rural Americans hurting for vaccines

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
A healthcare worker receives a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine (Wong Fok Loy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Vaccine guilt" is a real thing

Nicole Karlis
Antique Illustration, "Scene during the Lower Oolite Period (Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, a Marsupial, etc)" (Getty Images)

Primates coexisted with dinosaurs: study

Matthew Rozsa
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Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Stimulus bill penalizes single parents

Nicole Karlis
Universe, planets and lots of stars (Getty Images)

A new way of searching for alien life

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
A man waves a QAnon conspiracy flag at a protest of coronavirus skeptics, right-wing extremists and others angry over coronavirus-related restrictions and government policy on August 29, 2020 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Can cult studies offer help with QAnon?

Michael Schulson - Undark
Donald Trump, "light worker" extraordinaire (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why mystics say Trump is a "lightworker"

Nicole Karlis
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