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The wildfire spreads on August 19, 2020 in San Mateo, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

Wildfires, coronavirus collide in Cali

Nicole Karlis
Sandra Rodriguez, 63, receives a COVID-19 vaccination from Yaquelin De La Cruz at the Research Centers of America (RCA) in Hollywood, Florida, on August 13, 2020. - So-called phase three vaccine clinical trials, in which thousands of people take part in the final stages, are gaining traction. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Vaccine studies' ethical conundrum

Sarah Ruth Bates
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Americans seek fertility help abroad

Brant DeBoer - Undark
FFP2 respirator mask with air filtering valve (Pierre Teyssot/AGF/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The CDC's contradictory advice on masks

Frederick Clarkson, Jonathan Hutson
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Ron DeSantis (Getty/Drew Angerer)

DeSantis calls COVID lower risk than flu

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
Woman Holding Blister Pack Of Pills (Getty Images)

Mail delays create birth control barrier

Igor Derysh
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp | Closed Church (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes/Brynn Anderson)

Georgia officials knew of PPE shortage

Rachana Pradhan, Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
(Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)

DNC defends ACA, criticizes Trump

Kaiser Health News Staff - KFF Health News
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Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How to combat science deniers

Kate Yoder - Grist
In this screenshot from the DNCC’s livestream of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Former First Lady Michelle Obama addresses the virtual convention on August 17, 2020. The convention, which was once expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is now taking place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Handout/DNCC via Getty Images)

Night 1: Hitting Trump on preparedness

Kaiser Health News Staff - KFF Health News
Friends wearing masks (Getty Images)

How the pandemic is hurting friendships

Nicole Karlis
Sedge Wren perched on a branch singing. (Getty Images)

Bee-decimating pesticide affecting birds

Matthew Rozsa
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A person gives aways face-masks to people during a demonstration over the death of George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis, near the White House, in Washington, DC (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

PPE shortage could last years: experts

Jessica Glenza - KFF Health News
edics work with a COVID-19 patient at the isolation ward of Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan near the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on July 29, 2020. (JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Can you get COVID-19 twice?

Nicole Karlis
Fish and plastic waste inside the nets on a fishing boat ( Laura Lezza/Getty Images)

Seafood rife with plastic contaminants

Matthew Rozsa
Doctor and patient on medical consultation (Getty Images)

Risking COVID for a health screening?

Teresa Carr - Undark
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Pentagon formally releases 3 Navy videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" (US Pentagon)

Skeptics debunk Pentagon UFO videos

Matthew Rozsa
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The solar e-waste glut is coming

Maddie Stone - Grist
Donald Trump | A medical lab for processing analysis of test samples. (Getty Images/Salon)

Calls for at-home COVID tests approval

Alexandra Tempus - FairWarning
(Getty/PhonlamaiPhoto)

Pentagon launches UFO task force

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
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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)

204,691 extra deaths in the U.S. so far

Ronald D. Fricker Jr. - The Conversation

Trump's health plan that never comes

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
Russian President Vladimir Putin ( Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

Is Russia's hasty COVID vaccine safe?

Nicole Karlis
Riot police blocking the entrance to I-195 during the demonstration (Adam DelGiudice/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Defund police, re-fund mental health

Matthew Rozsa
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