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A mother spending time with her newborn baby (Getty Images/Mikolette)

When to self-isolate from a newborn?

Katharine Gammon - Undark
Conceptual artwork of a pair of entangled quantum particles or events (left and right) interacting at a distance. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Why physicists don’t understand reality

Jed Brody
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. The canceled federal conference on climate change and health problem is back on but apparently minus the federal government. Former Vice President Al Gore, the University of Washington, the Harvard Global Health Institute and the American Public Health Association are resurrecting a climate change and health conference set for next month that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had planned then canceled in December. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) (AP)

Chaos at the CDC

Caroline Chen, Marshall Allen, Lexi Churchill - ProPublica
Donald Trump (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Retired doctors, nurses don scrubs again

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
President Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Scientists: Trump bungled this badly

Matthew Rozsa
President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Lupus patients face drug shortages

Sara Talpos - Undark
In this photo provided by the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, taken March 11, 2015 in the intensive care unit at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, physical therapist Katie Kellner helps patient Terry Culler do some exercises and briefly stand despite being hooked to a ventilator. There's increasing evidence that mild exercise may have its place even for the sickest ICU patients, and new animal research suggests it may target both muscles and lungs. (AP Photo/Warren Cameron Dennis III, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) (AP)

How CPAPs spread the coronavirus

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
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Is the stimulus package green enough? No

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
A woman wears a medical mask on the subway as New York City confronts the coronavirus outbreak on March 11, 2020 in New York City. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday evening that he is restricting passenger travel from 26 European nations to the U.S. in an effort to contain the coronavirus which is rapidly spreading throughout the world and America. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

A "thermonuclear pandemic"

Alex Henderson - Alternet
FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2012, file photo, tourists make pictures under tropical palm trees in Singapore. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology project called Treepedia, that maps trees in the world's major cities, is making it easier to determine where more green is needed. Trees play a critical role in urban environments, helping keep cities cool, mitigating air and noise pollution and just making them more pleasant places to live and work. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) (AP)

Will warm weather slow down coronavirus?

Shannon Osaka - Grist
This photo taken Thursday, July 9, 2015, is the headquarters of Gilead Sciences in Foster City, Calif. Harvoni, the newest pill from California-based Gilead Sciences, accounted for more than three-fourths of the prescriptions filled for hepatitis-C drugs in the first three months of this year, according to IMS Health. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Gilead gets rights for virus treatment

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Walmart | Pills (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump appointees kill Walmart indictment

Jesse Eisinger, James Bandler - ProPublica
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Trump's environmental rollbacks continue

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
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Doctors hoarding unproven COVID-19 meds

Topher Sanders, David Armstrong, Ava Kofman - ProPublica
Donald Trump | Chloroquine Phosphate (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump's misleading chloroquine claims

Nicole Karlis
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Reality takes a back seat

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
House plants in pots with a bee sitting inside one of the flowers (Getty Images/Shraddha Dharmameher/FOAP)

Finding nature in quarantine

Keith A. Spencer
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Mulling the allure, peril of state power

Michael Schulson - Undark
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Sparing the rich, but not health workers

Devi Sridhar - Undark
Heather McTeer Toney (Moms Clean Air Force)

Clean air is a "mom-partisan" issue

Lauren Schiller
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Stop comparing coronavirus to the flu

Charles Ornstein - ProPublica
In this June 10, 2016 photo provided by the Mayo Clinic, a medical team of about 60 doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists and others at Mayo Clinic gather before performing the first face transplant surgery at their hospital in Rochester, Minn. Mardini and his team devoted more than 50 Saturdays over 3 1/2 years to rehearsing the procedure, using sets of cadaver heads to transplant the face of one to another. They used 3D imaging and virtual surgery to plot out the bony cuts so the donor's face would fit perfectly on Andy Sandness. (Michael Cleary/Mayo Clinic via AP) (AP)

Case for shortening medical education

Anuska Jain, Robert Orr
A close up of President Donald J. Trump's notes shows where Corona was crossed out "Corona" and replaced with "Chinese" Virus (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

We can learn COVID-19 myths

Anita Makri - Undark
An unidentified Army defender pulls down Navy quarterback Craig Candeto (11) in the third quarter the 104th Army-Navy football game, Dec. 6, 2003. (AP/Rusty Kennedy)

Diagnosing concussions with blood test

Sarah LaFramboise - Massive Science
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