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Anthony Fauci | Vaccine Vials (Salon/Getty Images)

Fauci plays key role in vaccine studies

Isaac Arnsdorf, Caroline Chen, Ryan Gabrielson - ProPublica
Fans wearing masks enter the game between the Lafayette Jefferson Broncos and West Lafayette Red Devils at Lafayette Jefferson High School on August 21, 2020 in Lafayette, Indiana. (Michael Hickey/Getty Images)

Booming mask vendors want COVID over too

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
Workers at a high school check the temperature to a student before she enters to attend classes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 13, 2020 amid the virus lockdown against the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic. (JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images)

Do temperature checks even work?

Nicole Karlis
Group of friends meeting in the city wearing protective face masks (Getty Images)

Not even Thanksgiving is safe: CDC

Matthew Rozsa
Mark Zuckerberg | Anti-Vax protester (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Facebook's soft ban on anti-vax content

Nicole Karlis
A needle is placed in the blood and plasma donation centre of the Institute for Transfusion Medicine Suhl. The Minister of Health has called on the Thuringians to donate blood. With the return of hospitals to regular operations, the need is also increasing again, she said. (Martin Schutt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Human arm is "evolving," scientists say

Matthew Rozsa
Patients and staff test positive for coronavirus at nursing homes (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

L.A. County's nursing home debacle

Dan Ross - Capital & Main
Hands with glove wiping doorknob (Getty Images)

The coronavirus sticks to these surfaces

Matthew Rozsa
Building of the company Johnson and Johnson | Vaccine (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Johnson & Johnson pauses its vaccine

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump; Melania Trump (Getty/Saul Loeb)

What can body language analysis tell us?

Ramin Skibba - Undark
A car with US President Trump drives past supporters in a motorcade outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on October 4, 2020. - US President Donald Trump drove past supporters outside the hospital where he was being treated for Covid-19, after announcing on Twitter a "suprise visit" to his backers. (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Is Trump covered by HIPAA?

Julie Appleby, Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
"Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change" by Maggie Smith (Photo illustration by Salon/Patri Hadad/Atria/One Signal Publishers)

Maggie Smith never stopped moving

Nicole Karlis
A studio shot of two glass vials with medicine and a single syringe ready for an injection or vaccination (Getty Images)

H.P. Acthar: from drug to cash cow

Michael McAuliff - KFF Health News
Dr. Julie Butler, who passed away in April 2020 of complications due to COVID-19. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Sheila Butler)

My sister died of COVID-19 — and racism

Sheila Butler
(Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett)

In Nicaragua, people and forests at risk

Sara Van Note - Undark
A healthcare worker prepares to transport a patient on a stretcher into an ambulance at Life Care Center of Kirkland on February 29, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington. Dozens of staff and residents at Life Care Center of Kirkland are reportedly exhibiting coronavirus-like symptoms, with two confirmed cases of (COVID-19) associated with the nursing facility reported so far. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

COVID erects barrier for bloc of voters

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
Telemedicine doctor and patient (Getty Images)

I never want to go back to IRL doctors

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Artists renderings of COVID spores and CRISPR (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Using CRISPR to treat COVID-19

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor in hospital at IV drip (Getty Images)

Monoclonal antibodies, explained

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Donald Trump | Hurricane | Atoms (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Trump can't "nuke" hurricanes

Kate Yoder - Grist
Staff of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, test patients at a new COVID-19 testing clinic at East Sydney Community and Arts Centre, April 17, 2020. (Louise Kennerley/The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)

What South Korea may show US about COVID

Wudan Yan, Ann Babe - Undark
Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Pharma cash flows to Biden, not Trump

Jay Hancock - KFF Health News
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1050958p1.html'>Dmytro Vietrov</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The science on breast milk and COVID

Elizabeth Preston - Undark
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spent three days hospitalized for coronavirus. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

No, Trump wasn't "cured," scientists say

Matthew Rozsa
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