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Joe Biden and Barack Obama (Getty Images/Salon)

Voters prefer Biden's health care plan

Emmarie Huetteman - KFF Health News
U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask 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)

Masculinity's threat to public health

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Cloudtail_the_Snow_Leopard)

Will Colorado bring back wolves?

Rebecca Niemiec, Kevin Crooks - The Conversation
Donald Trump | CDC Headquarters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Inside the fall of the CDC

James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella, Kirsten Berg - ProPublica
U.S. President Donald Trump gives a presidential ‘pardon’ to the National Thanksgiving Turkey Butter during the traditional event with first lady Melania Trump (R) in the Rose Garden of the White House November 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. The turkey pardon was made official in 1989 under former President George H.W. Bush, who was continuing an informal tradition started by President Harry Truman in 1947. Following the presidential pardon, the 47-pound turkey which was raised by farmer Wellie Jackson of Clinton, North Carolina, will reside at his new home, 'Gobbler's Rest,' at Virginia Tech. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Farmers have long memories

Judith Lewis Mernit - Capital & Main
U.S. Republican Senator from Iowa Joni Ernst speaks to the press after the Republican weekly policy lunch at the Capitol in Washington, DC on May 14, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

4 races that may determine climate leg.

Shannon Osaka - Grist
A staffer wearing a protective mask prepares cocktails for patrons at O'Neill's Irish Pub in Praça 5 de Outubro on August 23, 2020 in Cascais, Portugal. (Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Is the pandemic making us drink more?

Nicole Karlis
Donald Trump | Wildfires in California | Trump rally in Nevada (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump denies Calif. disaster aid request

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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
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