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FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2015 image made from video, an endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle swims as it is released into the Gulf of Mexico, 24 miles off the coast of Louisiana, after being rehabilitated by the Audubon Institute. After the spill, the number of the turtles' nests dropped 40 percent in one year in 2010. "We had never seen a drop that dramatic in one year before," according to Selina Saville Heppell, a professor at Oregon State University. The population climbed in 2011 and 2012 but then fell again in 2013 and 2014, down to levels that haven't been that low in nearly a decade, she said. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) (AP)

Freshwater species are disappearing fast

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Jodie Griffin suffers from unpredictable episodes of losing consciousness. Her medical alert dog, Nimbus, was trained to alert to the scent she emits before an episode. She says he has changed her life, allowing her to go out in the world without fear of collapsing without warning. (Jodie Griffin)

Can dogs sniff out coronavirus?

Maria Goodavage
A nurse escorts a patient with covid-19 symptoms to a tent set up in a courtyard of the Henri Mondor Hospital in Creteil, near Paris, on March 6, 2020, to take blood sample as the novel coronavirus strain that erupted in China this year and causes the COVID-19 disease already left nine dead in France and made hundreds ill. (HOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Major medical staffing company cuts back

Isaac Arnsdorf - ProPublica
This undated photo provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows CDC's laboratory test kit for the new coronavirus. (CDC via AP)

Online coronavirus tests on the rise

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Nurses work in the aisle in a hospital designated for COVID-19 patients in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Friday, March 06, 2020. (Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

"Red Dawn Breaking Bad"

Rachana Pradhan, Christina Jewett - KFF Health News
Paramedics carry a stretcher with a patient out of an ambulance at Brooklyn Hospital Center on March 27, 2020 in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

The heavy burden of EMTs

Bob Hennelly
A nurse applies a vaccine to her patient (Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Getty Images)

How to make a COVID-19 vaccine

Matthew Rozsa
Medical personnel transport the first patient affected by COVID-19 to an ICU tent ( Emanuele Cremaschi/Stringer/Getty Images)

Nurses, docs fear for lack of PPE

Seth Holmes, Liza Buchbinder
This photo taken Thursday, July 9, 2015, is the headquarters of Gilead Sciences in Foster City, Calif. Harvoni, the newest pill from California-based Gilead Sciences, accounted for more than three-fourths of the prescriptions filled for hepatitis-C drugs in the first three months of this year, according to IMS Health. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

We already paid for COVID-19 treatments

Alex Lawson - Independent Media Institute
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)

Coronavirus puts science on hold

Kate Yoder - Grist
Blood is drawn from a young woman ( Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

New test needed to end COVID lockdowns

Igor Derysh
In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 photo, Dr. Sherif Zaki adjusts a microscope at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. On Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, the nation's top public health agency issued a frank assessment of its recent battles against prioritized health problems, finding progress in some areas but backslide in others. Despite the mixed grades in the CDC’s report card on itself, some experts applauded CDC efforts, saying the agency had only limited abilities to prevent illness or stop people from doing things that hurt their own health. (AP Photo/Branden Camp) (AP)

COVID-19 testing will haunt the nation

Rachana Pradhan - KFF Health News
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Tony Fauci (L) speaks to US President Donald Trump during a tour of the National Institutes of Health's Vaccine Research Center March 3, 2020, in Bethesda, Maryland. - The US Federal Reserve announced an emergency rate cut responding to the growing economic risk posed by the coronavirus epidemic after the UN health agency said the world has entered "uncharted territory" with the outbreak's rapid spread. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Doctors to Trump: Heed expert warnings

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
A mother spending time with her newborn baby (Getty Images/Mikolette)

When to self-isolate from a newborn?

Katharine Gammon - Undark
Conceptual artwork of a pair of entangled quantum particles or events (left and right) interacting at a distance. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Why physicists don’t understand reality

Jed Brody
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. The canceled federal conference on climate change and health problem is back on but apparently minus the federal government. Former Vice President Al Gore, the University of Washington, the Harvard Global Health Institute and the American Public Health Association are resurrecting a climate change and health conference set for next month that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had planned then canceled in December. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) (AP)

Chaos at the CDC

Caroline Chen, Marshall Allen, Lexi Churchill - ProPublica
Donald Trump (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Retired doctors, nurses don scrubs again

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
President Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Scientists: Trump bungled this badly

Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Lupus patients face drug shortages

Sara Talpos - Undark
In this photo provided by the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, taken March 11, 2015 in the intensive care unit at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, physical therapist Katie Kellner helps patient Terry Culler do some exercises and briefly stand despite being hooked to a ventilator. There's increasing evidence that mild exercise may have its place even for the sickest ICU patients, and new animal research suggests it may target both muscles and lungs. (AP Photo/Warren Cameron Dennis III, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) (AP)

How CPAPs spread the coronavirus

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
(Getty/Shutterstock/salon)

Is the stimulus package green enough? No

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
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)

A "thermonuclear pandemic"

Alex Henderson - Alternet
FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2012, file photo, tourists make pictures under tropical palm trees in Singapore. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology project called Treepedia, that maps trees in the world's major cities, is making it easier to determine where more green is needed. Trees play a critical role in urban environments, helping keep cities cool, mitigating air and noise pollution and just making them more pleasant places to live and work. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) (AP)

Will warm weather slow down coronavirus?

Shannon Osaka - Grist
This photo taken Thursday, July 9, 2015, is the headquarters of Gilead Sciences in Foster City, Calif. Harvoni, the newest pill from California-based Gilead Sciences, accounted for more than three-fourths of the prescriptions filled for hepatitis-C drugs in the first three months of this year, according to IMS Health. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Gilead gets rights for virus treatment

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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