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Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019 in Washington. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Fast COVID-19 test pose safety issues

Rachana Pradhan - KFF Health News
FILE - This March 21, 2016 file photo shows the Flint Water Plant water tower in Flint, Mich. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is calling for a halt of administrative investigations into how two state agencies dealt with the Flint drinking water crisis after being warned they are hampering state and federal criminal probes. Snyder's office released letters Thursday May 26, 2016, from the state attorney general and a federal prosecutor. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio File) (AP)

COVID-19: environmental justice crisis

Yvette Cabrera - Grist
Nurse holding up fist in protest | Plague Doctor illustration (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

How the Plague helped end feudalism

Adam McBride
Ground crew at the Los Angeles International airport unload pallets of supplies of medical personal protective equipment, PPE, from a China Southern Cargo plane upon its arrival on Friday, April 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

A democratic alliance to stop pandemics

John Davenport
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Medical students, faculty and volunteers take blood samples during a coronavirus antibody study at Mountain View's First Presbyterian Church in Mountain View, Calif. (Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News/Getty Images)

Experts question Stanford antibody study

Igor Derysh
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)

Pharma neglected research for a while

Mike Ludwig - Truthout
FILE - In this Monday, April 27, 2015 file photo, a pangolin climbs out of a cage upon its release into the wild in Sibolangit, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Although a global wildlife summit banned all trade of the pangolin, an anteater with a distinctive coat of hard scales, doubts remain whether that will stop the illegal traffic of pangolins in Africa fueled by a growing demand from Asian consumers, particularly Chinese. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara, File) (AP)

How environmental damage drives disease

Dipika Kadaba - The Revelator
Protesters march to the Scottish Parliament in an "anti-swine flu vaccination protest" along the Royal Mile Edinburgh. (David Cheskin/PA Images via Getty Images)

Anti-vaccine activists latch onto COVID

Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
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Laboratory glassware (Getty Images)

How glass drove scientific progress

Ainissa Ramirez
A hazardous materials worker sprays his colleagues on October 23, 2001, after they came out from an anthrax search at the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Could the coronavirus be a bioweapon?

Sam Husseini
American VS Canadian Hospitals (Getty Images/Salon)

FDA seizes cheaper drugs from Canada

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
A health worker conducts COVID-19 tests at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site (AP Photo/John Raoux)

The virus test supply chain is broken

Nicole Karlis
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Dr. Jane Goodall giving a speech onstage at The Anthem auditorium in September 2019. (National Geographic/Chris McCary)

Jane Goodall is hopeful for the future

Nicole Karlis
Male nurse doing routine checkup of senior patient in hospital room (Getty Images/Ridofranz)

Toll of COVID-19 on health care workers

Christina Jewett, Liz Szabo - KFF Health News
Plant Magic by Christine Buckley (Shambhala/Lawrence Braun)

Science and herbalism become friends

Nicole Karlis
The Museum of Capitalism (Rebecca Elmquist/Museum of Capitalism)

Pillars of the community

Kate Yoder - Grist
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This Dec. 17, 2016 photo shows a Donald Trump campaign sign along a highway near Los Banos, Calif. A California farmer says Donald Trump's campaign vow to deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally pushed him into buying more equipment, cutting the number of workers he’ll need during the next harvest. Others in California's farming industry say Trump's tough campaign talk targeting immigrants in the country illegally, including a vast number of farmworkers, spurred them into action, too. (AP Photo/Scott Smith) (AP)

The power of "plantibodies"

Marnie Willman - Massive Science
A man wearing a respirator walks through an eerily empty Times Square in New York, the United States, March 26, 2020 (Xinhua/M IchaelNagle/wangying via Getty Images)

The pandemic is slowing down the world

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
In this photo taken on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014,  a woman prisoner suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus, from Tubmanburg central prison, is pushed in a wheelchair towards a medical vehicle,  to be taken to an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia. The Ebola outbreak has spawned a “silent killer,” experts say: hidden cases of malaria, pneumonia, typhoid and the like that are going untreated because people in the countries hardest hit by Ebola either cannot find an open clinic or are too afraid to go to one. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh) (AP)

New disease stalls efforts to fight old

Lynne Peeples - Undark
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"It’s not over until it’s over"

Phil Galewitz - KFF Health News
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters following a meeting of his coronavirus task force in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 6, 2020 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Docs show federal agencies supported WHO

Yeganeh Torbati - ProPublica
David Morales, a garbage driver with Recology, dumps a garbage container for Seattle Public Utilities, Friday, April 15, 2016, in Seattle. A judge is scheduled to hear a challenge Friday, April 16, 2016, to a new Seattle law allowing garbage collectors to check people's trash to see whether they are disposing of recycling items and food waste incorrectly.  (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (AP)

Food waste in the time of COVID-19

Dipika Kadaba - The Revelator
Pro-choice activist (Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

Texas is on the wrong side of history

Karen Blumenthal
Microscopic view of Coronavirus (Getty Images)

The future depends on antibody tests

Nicole Karlis
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