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Arthur Allen

Arthur Allen writes on health, science and other issues for Salon and Kaiser Health News. He lives in Washington.

Row of medical vials and syringe. (A. Martin UW Photography / Getty Images)

Trump team’s $500 million bet on old vaccine technology puzzles scientists

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Vet looking at a calf on a farm (Getty Images/Westend61)

Finland is offering farmworkers bird flu shots. Some experts say the US should, too

Amy Maxmen, Arthur Allen
A hand in a medical glove injects a syringe into a chicken egg (Getty Images/Vika-Viktoria)

The chicken and egg problem of fighting another flu pandemic

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Paxlovid | Patients in a hospital waiting room (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why COVID patients who could most benefit from Paxlovid still aren’t getting it

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A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Why the CDC has recommended new COVID boosters for all

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US President Joe Biden speaks during an event celebrating the lowering of drug pricing in the East Room of the White House on August 29, 2023 in Washington DC, United States. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

5 things to know about the new drug pricing negotiations

Arthur Allen, Rachana Pradhan, David Hilzenrath
Neurology research, concept (Getty Images/TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The real costs of the new Alzheimer’s drug, most of which will fall to taxpayers

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee speaks at a hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 30, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Sen. Sanders shows fire, but seeks modest goals, in his debut drug hearing as health chair

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (3rd L) speaks on health care as (L-R) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) listen during an event September 13, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Getty/Alex Wong)

“We ain’t gonna get it”: Why Bernie Sanders says his “Medicare for All” dream must wait

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Customer walking into a CVS location. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Decisions by CVS and Optum panicked thousands of their sickest patients

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Baby was sick as Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in kid hospital (Getty Images/graphixchon)

A technicality could keep RSV shots from kids in need

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This photo shows a vial of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, Bivalent, at AltaMed Medical clinic in Los Angeles, California, on October 6, 2022. (RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images)

FDA experts are still puzzled over who should get which COVID shots and when

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MRSA super bug colonies on blood agar plate. (Getty Images/Rodolfo Parulan Jr)

Is legislation to safeguard Americans against superbugs a boondoggle or breakthrough?

Liz Szabo, Arthur Allen
Enteroviruses, a group of RNA-viruses of the Picornaviridae family including Echo-viruses, Coxsackie-viruses, Rhino-viruses, Polio-virus and other (Getty Images/Dr_Microbe)

What the polio case in New York tells us about the end of polio

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Antibiotics are placed in petri dishes filled with bacteria. In the dish on the left the bacteria will not develop near the antibiotics. In the right petri dish, antibiotic resistant bacteria are growing. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

As Big Pharma loses interest in new antibiotics, infections are only growing stronger

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A general view of Novavax vaccine vials as the Dutch Health Service Organization starts with the Novavax vaccination program on March 21, 2022 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images)

Novavax missed its global moonshot but is angling to win over mRNA defectors

Arthur Allen, Sarah Jane Tribble
The Pfizer logo is seen reflected in a drop on a needle (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pfizer CEO pushes yearly Covid shots while experts hesitate

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A healthcare worker wearing a personal protective equipment (PPE) attends to Covid-19 patient wearing oxygen mask inside a Covid-19 care center set up at shehnai banquet hall attached with Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP) one of the largest COVID-19 facilities. (Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

COVID immunity through infection or vaccination: Are they equal?

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. The committee will hear testimony about the Biden administration's ongoing plans to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and Delta variant. (Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

How Fauci and the NIH got ahead of the FDA and CDC in backing boosters

Sarah Jane Tribble, Arthur Allen
Doctor in protective gloves & workwear filling injection syringe with COVID-19 vaccine (Getty Images)

Not all experts are ready to vaccinate kids against COVID-19

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This photo taken on March 5, 2020 shows nurses preparing to deliver yoghurt to patients at a temporary hospital set up for COVID-19 coronavirus patients in a sports stadium in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. - China reported 30 more deaths from the new coronavirus outbreak on March 6, with fresh infections rising for a second straight day and 16 new cases imported from overseas. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Mounting pressure on China about COVID “lab leak” could backfire

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Medicine bottle with syringe and needle for immunization (Getty Images)

Public health experts fear a hasty FDA signoff on vaccine

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An engineer shows an experimental vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus (NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)

Get ready for the vaccine — they’re never simple

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Agnieszka Holland

Oscar-nominated director: Human nature is miserable

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