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Emergency Medical Technicians wheel a collapsible wheeled stretcher into the emergency room at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

What emergency doctors worry about

Kimon L.H. Ioannides
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Easter lilies with no place to go

Emma Platoff - The Texas Tribune
(Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

COVID-19 may reactivate in cured patient

Alex Henderson - Alternet
A pall of smog lies over the Los Angeles skyline. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Air pollution can compound COVID-19

Igor Derysh
In this March 22, 2017 photograph,"Gestalt Gardener," horticulturalist Felder Rushing stands in the midst of his wildflower and herb garden at his Jackson, Miss., home. The "Gestalt Gardner" program is one of Mississippi Public President Donald Trump’s proposal to erase federal support for public broadcasting would reach far into rural America. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) (AP)

Become a backyard naturalist

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
A man preparing a healthy meal at home (Getty Images)

Eating gets harder for autistic people

Matthew Rozsa
FILE - This handout file photo taken Sept. 2, 2014, provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows A 39-year-old woman, the first participant enrolled in VRC 207, receiving a dose of the investigational NIAID/GSK Ebola vaccine at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. As West Africa struggles to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola, some experts say an unusual but simple treatment might help: the blood of survivors. The evidence is mixed for using infection-fighting antibodies from survivors’ blood for Ebola, but without any licensed drugs or vaccines for the deadly disease, some say it’s worth a shot. (AP Photo/NIAID, File) (AP)

Is "Trump’s drug" hindering science?

Sara Talpos - Undark
(Michael Brochstein / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

What’s missing in the COVID-19 response

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
In this Jan. 29, 2016, photo, Debra Aldridge, right, continues to make dinner as her grandson Mario Hendricks talks to a cousin about being able to go to a sleep-over at the cousin's home, at her home on Chicago's South Side. Nationwide, there are 2.7 million grandparents raising grandchildren. About a fifth have incomes that fall below the poverty line, according the Census figures. More grandparents are taking on the role of parents for their grandkids, as social service agencies try to place foster children in so-called kinship families. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) (AP)

Multigenerational homes are at risk

Cara Anthony - KFF Health News
A one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by MERCK, is held up at the Salt Lake County Health Department on April 26, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Getty/George Frey)

What "short-term immunity" means

Matthew Rozsa
Woman doing a breathing exercise (Getty Images)

The COVID-19 breathing "technique"

Nicole Karlis
In this June 10, 2016 photo provided by the Mayo Clinic, a medical team of about 60 doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists and others at Mayo Clinic gather before performing the first face transplant surgery at their hospital in Rochester, Minn. Mardini and his team devoted more than 50 Saturdays over 3 1/2 years to rehearsing the procedure, using sets of cadaver heads to transplant the face of one to another. They used 3D imaging and virtual surgery to plot out the bony cuts so the donor's face would fit perfectly on Andy Sandness. (Michael Cleary/Mayo Clinic via AP) (AP)

COVID-19: What happens after recovery?

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (AP/Seth Wenig)

Is NYC undercounting COVID-19 patients?

Bob Hennelly
Pia Fischer, a textile artist, sews protective masks. (Christoph Soeder/picture alliance/Getty Images)

Face Masks 101: What you need to know

Ashlie D. Stevens
A person walks past the arch in Washington Square Park on March 4, 2020 in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Corbis via Getty Images)

NY colleges botched dorm evacuations

Shane Tan
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)

Health care workers shut out

Shannon Najmabadi - The Texas Tribune
Two dogs and cat waiting for the Vet (Getty Images)

Can pets get COVID-19? It's complicated

Nicole Karlis
Doctor checks female patient's oxygen level (Getty Images)

Are oximeters the new thermometers?

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/sturti)

"You’ve Been Served"

Bram Sable-Smith - KFF Health News
OR-11, a male pup (born spring 2011) from the Walla Walla pack, waking up from anesthesia after being radio-collared on Oct. 25, 2011. It was the second wolf in the pack to be collared. (Photo courtesy of ODFW.)

Avenger planet

Michael T. Klare - TomDispatch.com
A member of the medical staff comforts a patient infected by the novel coronavirus (PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP/Getty Images)

COVID-19's "cytokine storm," explained

Keith A. Spencer
Woman talking on a cell phone, rear view (defocused) (Getty Images/ Brad Rickerby)

9 ways to practice radical neighboring

Simon Greer - Independent Media Institute
The Pleasure Gap by Katherine Rowland (Photos provided by publicist)

Why the sexual "pleasure gap" exists

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/RuslanDashinsky)

Pregnant in a time of coronavirus

Hector Chapa - The Conversation
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