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Science & Health (page 245)

Salon covers science and health news through investigations, insightful reporting, commentary and analysis.

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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
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
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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COVID-19 may reactivate in cured patient

Alex Henderson - Alternet
A pall of smog lies over the Los Angeles skyline. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Air pollution can compound COVID-19

Igor Derysh
In this March 22, 2017 photograph,"Gestalt Gardener," horticulturalist Felder Rushing stands in the midst of his wildflower and herb garden at his Jackson, Miss., home. The "Gestalt Gardner" program is one of Mississippi Public President Donald Trump’s proposal to erase federal support for public broadcasting would reach far into rural America. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) (AP)

Become a backyard naturalist

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
A man preparing a healthy meal at home (Getty Images)

Eating gets harder for autistic people

Matthew Rozsa
FILE - This handout file photo taken Sept. 2, 2014, provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows A 39-year-old woman, the first participant enrolled in VRC 207, receiving a dose of the investigational NIAID/GSK Ebola vaccine at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. As West Africa struggles to contain the biggest ever outbreak of Ebola, some experts say an unusual but simple treatment might help: the blood of survivors. The evidence is mixed for using infection-fighting antibodies from survivors’ blood for Ebola, but without any licensed drugs or vaccines for the deadly disease, some say it’s worth a shot. (AP Photo/NIAID, File) (AP)

Is "Trump’s drug" hindering science?

Sara Talpos - Undark
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What’s missing in the COVID-19 response

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
In this Jan. 29, 2016, photo, Debra Aldridge, right, continues to make dinner as her grandson Mario Hendricks talks to a cousin about being able to go to a sleep-over at the cousin's home, at her home on Chicago's South Side. Nationwide, there are 2.7 million grandparents raising grandchildren. About a fifth have incomes that fall below the poverty line, according the Census figures. More grandparents are taking on the role of parents for their grandkids, as social service agencies try to place foster children in so-called kinship families. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) (AP)

Multigenerational homes are at risk

Cara Anthony - KFF Health News
A one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by MERCK, is held up at the Salt Lake County Health Department on April 26, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Getty/George Frey)

What "short-term immunity" means

Matthew Rozsa
Woman doing a breathing exercise (Getty Images)

The COVID-19 breathing "technique"

Nicole Karlis
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)

COVID-19: What happens after recovery?

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (AP/Seth Wenig)

Is NYC undercounting COVID-19 patients?

Bob Hennelly
Pia Fischer, a textile artist, sews protective masks. (Christoph Soeder/picture alliance/Getty Images)

Face Masks 101: What you need to know

Ashlie D. Stevens
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