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The University of Minnesota campus was mostly deserted Tuesday afternoon, April 21, 2020. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Welcome to the kingdom of the sick

Cynthia Ryan
Vice President Mike Pence visits the molecular testing lab at Mayo Clinic (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

The Mayo Clinic bows to Pence

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Virus spores leaking out of a bathroom (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Hospital study reveals how virus spreads

Nicole Karlis
American Flag | Woman sitting on a hospital bed (Getty Images/Salon)

Wealthy hospitals hoarding millions

Jordan Rau - KFF Health News
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Guns stand for sale at a gun show on November 24, 2018 in Naples, Florida. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Another side effect of COVID: more guns

Ariel Ramchandani - Undark
In this Thursday, May 7, 2015 photo, Victoria Goss, founder of Last Chance Corral, stands in the medical supply room as she waits for the result of a colostrum test in Athens, Ohio. Every new foal brought to rescue critical for the development of animal's immune system. In some cases, the foal is separated from the mother before the antibody transfer occurs, requiring intervention at the rescue. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (AP)

COVID antibody tests a work in progress

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
Supreme Court in Washington (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Gov must pay Obamacare insurers: SCOTUS

Roger Sollenberger
Pentagon formally releases 3 Navy videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" (US Pentagon)

Does new Pentagon footage reveal UFOs?

Alex Henderson - Alternet
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Robert Reich in “Saving Capitalism” (Netflix)

Climate solutions we need to talk about

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org

COVID & the hunger industrial complex

Andrew Fisher - MIT Press Reader
Good Boy by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Dan Haar/Celadon Books)

"Dogs see us for who we really are"

Nicole Karlis
Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019 in Washington. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Fast COVID-19 test pose safety issues

Rachana Pradhan - KFF Health News
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FILE - This March 21, 2016 file photo shows the Flint Water Plant water tower in Flint, Mich. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is calling for a halt of administrative investigations into how two state agencies dealt with the Flint drinking water crisis after being warned they are hampering state and federal criminal probes. Snyder's office released letters Thursday May 26, 2016, from the state attorney general and a federal prosecutor. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio File) (AP)

COVID-19: environmental justice crisis

Yvette Cabrera - Grist
Nurse holding up fist in protest | Plague Doctor illustration (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

How the Plague helped end feudalism

Adam McBride
Ground crew at the Los Angeles International airport unload pallets of supplies of medical personal protective equipment, PPE, from a China Southern Cargo plane upon its arrival on Friday, April 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

A democratic alliance to stop pandemics

John Davenport
Medical students, faculty and volunteers take blood samples during a coronavirus antibody study at Mountain View's First Presbyterian Church in Mountain View, Calif. (Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News/Getty Images)

Experts question Stanford antibody study

Igor Derysh
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Doctor and pharmacist Gilles Leboucher prepares a diluted solution of phages from three different concentrated types of phages on March 8, 2019, at the Croix-Rousse hospital, in Lyon, central-eastern France. (Romain Lafabregue/AFP/Getty Images)

Pharma neglected research for a while

Mike Ludwig - Truthout
FILE - In this Monday, April 27, 2015 file photo, a pangolin climbs out of a cage upon its release into the wild in Sibolangit, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Although a global wildlife summit banned all trade of the pangolin, an anteater with a distinctive coat of hard scales, doubts remain whether that will stop the illegal traffic of pangolins in Africa fueled by a growing demand from Asian consumers, particularly Chinese. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara, File) (AP)

How environmental damage drives disease

Dipika Kadaba - The Revelator
Protesters march to the Scottish Parliament in an "anti-swine flu vaccination protest" along the Royal Mile Edinburgh. (David Cheskin/PA Images via Getty Images)

Anti-vaccine activists latch onto COVID

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Laboratory glassware (Getty Images)

How glass drove scientific progress

Ainissa Ramirez
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A hazardous materials worker sprays his colleagues on October 23, 2001, after they came out from an anthrax search at the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Could the coronavirus be a bioweapon?

Sam Husseini
American VS Canadian Hospitals (Getty Images/Salon)

FDA seizes cheaper drugs from Canada

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
A health worker conducts COVID-19 tests at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site (AP Photo/John Raoux)

The virus test supply chain is broken

Nicole Karlis
Dr. Jane Goodall giving a speech onstage at The Anthem auditorium in September 2019. (National Geographic/Chris McCary)

Jane Goodall is hopeful for the future

Nicole Karlis
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