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

Pillars of the community

Kate Yoder - Grist
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
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
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Microscopic view of Coronavirus (Getty Images)

The future depends on antibody tests

Nicole Karlis
A nurse applies a vaccine to her patient (Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Getty Images)

How do we end the coronavirus shutdown?

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
Hospital Patient | Voting Booth (Getty Images/Salon)

Voter suppression and COVID-19

Mienah Z. Sharif, Anna K. Hing, Héctor E. Alcalá
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COVID-19: Inconsistent data tracking

Charles Ornstein - ProPublica
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Depressed woman in bed with hand on forehead (Getty/ Martin Dimitrov)

While you were sleeping

Kamila Kourbanova - Massive Science
A NHS sign warning of coronavirus on Queen Street on March 22, 2020 in Cardiff, United Kingdom. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

It's not too late to change our future

Sara May Bergstresser - Massive Science
Emergency Medical Technicians wheel a collapsible wheeled stretcher into the emergency room at NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

What emergency doctors worry about

Kimon L.H. Ioannides
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Easter lilies with no place to go

Emma Platoff - The Texas Tribune
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