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A health care worker holds an injection syringe of the phase 3 vaccine trial, developed against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by the U.S. Pfizer and German BioNTech company, at the Ankara University Ibni Sina Hospital in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2020. (Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

What doctors aren’t always taught

Elizabeth Lawrence - KFF Health News
Researchers traveled to Antarctica to record high energy particles coming from space, using a balloon transporting NASA's Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Trump rushes to sell Arctic oil rights

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
(Wellcome Images/Andrew Polaszek, Natural History Museum)

The shaky supply chain for wasp venom

Hannah Hoag - Undark
A large group of people wearing medical face masks amidst the novel Coronavirus outbreak (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

Is herd immunity possible?

Matthew Rozsa
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A passenger wearing a mask prepares to board a flight departing the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Getty Images)

Flying maybe not as safe as airlines say

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
The long nose of a liar Pinocchio (Getty Images)

How dishonesty changes your brain

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Medical Billing (Getty Images)

Study: Hospital markups hit up to 1,800%

Igor Derysh
Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can Biden reverse Trump rollbacks?

Shannon Osaka, Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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A female red kangaroo holds her juvenile joey (Getty Images)

Kangaroos being butchered for pet food

Matthew Rozsa
A vaccine syringe is held over a model of a coronavirus (Peter Endig/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Who should get a COVID-19 vaccine first?

Jill Neimark - Undark
Moderna and Pfizer (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The vaccine won't be distributed equally

Charlotte Kilpatrick
(Getty/PeopleImages)

Back pain treatment stretches the truth

John Hill - FairWarning
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A health care worker injects the a syringe of the phase 3 vaccine trial, to a volunteer at the Ankara University Ibni Sina Hospital in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2020. This vaccine candidate developed against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by the U.S. Pfizer and German BioNTech company. (Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image)

Pfizer submits an EUA request to FDA

Matthew Rozsa
The Lucira COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit (Photo illustration by Salon/Lucira Health/Getty Images)

FDA approves COVID-19 home testing kit

Matthew Rozsa
A smartphone's Lyft app displays a message motivating users to vote yes on Proposition 22 in Oakland, California on October 9, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

People aren't keen on COVID tracing apps

Rae Ellen Bichell - KFF Health News
A medical syringe and vials in front of the AstraZeneca British biopharmaceutical company logo are seen in this creative photo taken on 18 November 2020. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Oxford vaccine clears crucial hurdle

Matthew Rozsa
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Jay Bhattacharya on Tucker Carlson Tonight (Fox News)

The anti-lockdown doc conservatives love

Matthew Rozsa
An anti-mask protestor holds up a sign in front of the Ohio Statehouse during a right-wing protest "Stand For America Against Terrorists and Tyrants" at State Capitol on July 18, 2020 in Columbus, Ohio. - Protestors descended on Columbus, Ohio for a planned anti-mask rally in response to local laws requiring people to wear a mask in many Ohio cities. (JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Are Americans too selfish to wear masks?

Nicole Karlis
MARCH 30: U.S. President Donald Trump takes a new COVID-19 test kit developed by Abbott Labs out of its box during the daily coronavirus briefing at the Rose Garden of the White House on March 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Rapid antigen testing is a mess

Lisa Song - ProPublica
A health care worker holds an injection syringe of the phase 3 vaccine trial, developed against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by the U.S. Pfizer and German BioNTech company, at the Ankara University Ibni Sina Hospital in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2020. (Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The 1 big difference between 2 vaccines

Matthew Rozsa
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US President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Getty Images/Salon)

Red states argue they were harmed by ACA

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
Kevin McCarthy (Getty/Jim Watson)

These Republicans care about climate

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Medical workers load a patient from Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center into an ambulance while wearing masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) in Andover, New Jersey. After an anonymous tip to police, 17 people were found dead at the long-term care facility, including two nurses, where at least 76 patients and 41 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

How Trump made nursing homes vulnerable

Jillian S. Ambroz - DCReport
This creative image taken in a studio in Paris on November 16, 2020, showing a syringe and a vaccine vial with the reproducted logo of a US biotech firm Moderna (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Moderna vaccine shows promise

Nicole Karlis
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