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This July 9, 2014 photo shows Navajo archaeologist Kim Mangum picking up a wooden cross at a cemetery in Winslow, Arizona. Local historic preservation Commissioner Gail Sadler has made it her mission to unearth the identities of roughly 600 people buried there and help their descendants reconnect with a lost part of their history. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca) (AP)

Doctors Without Borders now in US

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story
Bill Gates (Salon/PBG/AAD/STAR MAX/IPx/ohns Hopkins University)

The Gates–coronavirus conspiracy theory

Matthew Rozsa
A member of the clinical staff wearing Personal Protective Equipment PPE cares for a patient with coronavirus in the intensive care unit at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England (Neil Hall/Pool via AP)

"Hydroxychloroquine is ineffective"

Matthew Rozsa
Microscopic spores of the parasite Henneguya salminicola (Stephen Douglas Atkinson)

The animal that can live without oxygen

Matthew Rozsa
Boy and his teddy bear both in protective medical masks sits on windowsill and looks out window (Getty Images)

Mysterious children's disease appears

Nicole Karlis
People wear face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as they walk through a temperature checkpoint at an outdoor shopping area in Beijing (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Coronavirus resurgence in China

Matthew Rozsa
Warehouses that were converted to keep the infected people quarantined. The patients are suffering from the 1918 Influenza pandemic. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Lessons from the 1918 flu pandemic

Matthew Rozsa
A water main manhole cover in a street in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

Thirsty future for the American West

Alexandra Tempus - FairWarning
Natural gas flame on a stove (Robert Clare/Getty Images)

Your gas stove may be bad for you

Rachel Ramirez - Grist
Close-up of Syringes in a row (Getty Images)

Pandemic roils Montana community

Kathleen McLaughlin - KFF Health News
Doctor writing on clipboard (Getty Images)

When illness and family secrets collide

Mikkael Sekeres
In this Nov. 3, 2015 file photo, wind turbines dot the landscape near Steele City, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Shared goals, divergent pathways

Deidra Miniard, Joe Kantenbacher, Shahzeen Attari - The Conversation
Llamas posing ( Kathrin Ziegler/Getty Images)

Llamas to fight the coronavirus

Nicole Karlis
People work at the construction site of Chahe grand bridge of the Kunming-Chuxiong expressway in southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Yang Zongyou via Getty Images)

On climate change & infectious diseases

Abrahm Lustgarten - ProPublica
(Getty/Sean Gallup)

Viral post about PPE shortage way off

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
(annick vanderschelden photography/Getty Images)

COVID-19 reignites debate over bats

Katherine J. Wu - Undark
Judy Mikovits, pictured in a 26-minute preview of the documentary "Plandemic." ("Plandemic" (Fair Use))

The “Plandemic” conspiracy, explained

Nicole Karlis
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump's COVID testing claim is wrong

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
Microscopic view of Coronavirus (Getty Images)

What is "Covid Toe"?

Nicole Karlis
A studio shot of two glass vials with medicine and a single syringe ready for an injection or vaccination (Getty Images)

A "shield" to stop the coronavirus

Nicole Karlis
A nurse looks at test tubes after taking a blood sample from a patient suffering from Covid 19, in the Covid-19 department at the Bari Polyclinic on May 05, 2020 in Bari, Italy. (Donato Fasano/Getty Images)

The coronavirus has mutated

Nicole Karlis
Scientists doing research on desktop PC in a laboratory. (Getty Images)

Stopping a pandemic before it starts

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Japanese Giant Hornet – Vespa mandarinia (Getty Images/Alastair Macewen)

The plot to eradicate the murder hornet

Nicole Karlis
David Wheeler, father of Sandy Hook School shooting victim Benjamin Wheeler, addresses the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission via Skype at the Legislative Office Building, Friday, June 27, 2014, in Hartford, Conn. The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission has been reviewing current policies and making recommendations to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on school safety, mental health and gun violence prevention. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) (AP)

All conferences could be virtual

Adam Fortais - Massive Science
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