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Mulling the allure, peril of state power

Michael Schulson - Undark
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Sparing the rich, but not health workers

Devi Sridhar - Undark
Heather McTeer Toney (Moms Clean Air Force)

Clean air is a "mom-partisan" issue

Lauren Schiller
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Stop comparing coronavirus to the flu

Charles Ornstein - ProPublica
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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)

Case for shortening medical education

Anuska Jain, Robert Orr
A close up of President Donald J. Trump's notes shows where Corona was crossed out "Corona" and replaced with "Chinese" Virus (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

We can learn COVID-19 myths

Anita Makri - Undark
An unidentified Army defender pulls down Navy quarterback Craig Candeto (11) in the third quarter the 104th Army-Navy football game, Dec. 6, 2003. (AP/Rusty Kennedy)

Diagnosing concussions with blood test

Sarah LaFramboise - Massive Science
Pro-choice and pro-life activists demonstrate in front of the the US Supreme Court during the 47th annual March for Life on January 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Will Supreme Court rule against science?

Sarah CM Roberts
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A worker removes the flowers from a wreath in Athens, Friday, July 17, 2015. Funeral homes here are struggling to cope with banking restrictions _ with a modest funeral costing more the 15 times the daily ATM withdrawal limit _ in a country that traditionally carries out funerals shortly after death and almost everything is paid for in cash. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) (AP)

Pondering death in the age of COVID-19

JoNel Aleccia - KFF Health News
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How big corporations are poisoning farms

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Donald Trump; Xavier Becerra (AP/Evan Vucci/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

The high cost of being Trump's enemy

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
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The front lines of developing a test

David Pride - The Conversation
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Vodka won’t protect you from coronavirus

Jeffrey Gardner - The Conversation
Russian President Vladimir Putin ( Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

Why so few coronavirus cases in Russia?

Jeremy Rossman - The Conversation
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How scammers are exploiting COVID-19

Stacey Wood, Yaniv Hanoch, Marian Liu, David Hengerer
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)

Trump putting health workers in danger

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
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Why crises make us information addicts

Catherine Franssen
Jared Kushner (Getty/Michael Reynolds)

The Kushner's are cashing in on COVID-19

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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Sanctions during a pandemic are cruel

Vijay Prashad, Paola Estrada - Independent Media Institute
Ben Shapiro and Trish Regan (Michael S. Schwartz/Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Conservatives: COVID-19 not a big deal

Matthew Rozsa
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Even in the Age of Trump, facts matter

Sidney Shapiro - Undark
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On COVID-19 outbreak & patient privacy

Hongyu Zhang - The Conversation
Homeless people sleep in the 42nd St-Bryant Park Subway station on March 9, 2020 in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Corbis via Getty Images)

Coronavirus could hit homeless pop. hard

Michael Cousineau - The Conversation
A woman wears a medical mask on the subway as New York City confronts the coronavirus outbreak on March 11, 2020 in New York City. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday evening that he is restricting passenger travel from 26 European nations to the U.S. in an effort to contain the coronavirus which is rapidly spreading throughout the world and America. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Social distancing doesn't mean isolation

Nicole Karlis
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