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Exhausted businesswoman having a headache at her desk (Getty Images)

The burnout epidemic

Sara Konrath
Police officers clash with protesters during a demonstration over the Minneapolis death of George Floyd while in police custody on May 29, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Who pays for protest injuries?

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News

Curbing congenital syphilis falter

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
An activist shows sex workers how to apply hand sanitizer during an awareness campaign to promote safe measures against the spread of the new Coronavirus, COVID-19. (Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images)

The humanities could help solve COVID-19

Anna Magdalena Elsner, Vanessa Rampton - Undark
Police officers in riot gear stand in formation at a cross street as they make their way to where protesters are gathered on May 30, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. Protests have erupted after recent police-related incidents resulting in the deaths of African-Americans Breonna Taylor in Louisville and George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Robber bullets can kill, blind and maim

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
A pharmacy tech holds a bottle of Hydroxychloroquine (GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images)

Lancet retraction may rile MAGA crowd

Matthew Rozsa
Veterinarian performs a check up on a German Shepard, during a drive through veterinarian clinic (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

An American dog contracts coronavirus

Matthew Rozsa
A man throws a tear gas canister back at police officers in front of the Colorado State Capitol as protests against the death of George Floyd continue (Getty Images/Michael Ciaglo)

How tear gas helps coronavirus spread

Nicole Karlis
Activists of the international environmentalist organization Greenpeace pose with posters in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, April 13, 2014 to support clean energy. After a one week meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Berlin the final document which is released on Sunday is expected to say that a global shift to renewable energy from fossil fuels like oil and coal are required to avoid potentially devastating sea level rise, flooding, droughts and other impacts of warming. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) (Michael Sohn)

Green groups reckon with a racist past

Shannon Osaka - Grist
A man wearing a protective mask walk in the rain past the Royal Swedish Opera (at left) in Stockholm, Sweden (Getty Images)

Swedish doc defends lax pandemic plan

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

How Trump bungled the pandemic response

Matthew Rozsa
Dr. Anthony Fauci (Getty Images/Salon)

Fauci: We're getting close to a vaccine

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

US coronavirus timeline was wrong: study

Matthew Rozsa
Demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd hold up placards near the White House on June 1, 2020 in Washington, DC.near the White House on June 1, 2020 in Washington, DC. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

The psychology of the reactionaries

Matthew Rozsa
Blood Vessel concept illustration (Getty Images)

Study resolves a coronavirus riddle

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/PeopleImages)

Immunity passports may violate U.S. law

Seema Mohapatra - The Conversation
A medical worker communicates with a patient at Xiaotangshan Hospital in Beijing, capital of China, March 30, 2020 (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao via Getty Images)

Lyme disease symptoms look like COVID

Jory Brinkerhoff - The Conversation
In this picture publicly provided by the zoo Dvur Kralove and taken on Monday, March 20, 2017, in Dvur Kralove, a zoo keeper removes a horn of Pamir, a southern white rhino, as one of the safety measures to reduce the risk of any potential poaching attack. The zoo's decision follows the incident in the French Zoo Thoiry, where one of the white rhinos was killed by poachers for its horn in the beginning of March. (Simona Jirickova/Zoo Dvur Kralove via AP) (AP)

Bridge the human and animal divide

Lynne Peeples - Undark
Farmers being tested for COVID-19 (Coalition of Immokalee Workers)

The Florida town where 50% are infected

Seth Holmes
Author and professor Temple Grandin (Leonard Ortiz/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Is intelligence learned or genetic?

Matthew Rozsa
Patients and staff test positive for coronavirus at nursing homes (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Trump rollback paved way for pandemic

Bob Hennelly
A view of a private saloon in Le Fouquet's Restaurant, prior to its reopening, on the Champs Elysees in Paris, Saturday, July 13, 2019. The famed restaurant Le Fouquet's will reopen on Sunday, Bastille Day, after it was vandalized and set on fire during the yellow vests demonstrations in March. ( (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

COVID liability immunity faces obstacles

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Donald Trump | World Health Organization sign (Salon/Getty Images)

Trump nixes US-WHO relationship

Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump opens a box containing an Abbott Labs testing kit during a coronavirus briefing at the White House in March. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Antibody tests causing confusion

Christie Aschwanden - KFF Health News
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