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Caroline Chen

Meliandou, Guinea. (Jane Hahn for the Washington Post via Getty Images)

The next deadly pandemic is just a forest clearing away — but we’re not even trying to prevent it

Caroline Chen, Irena Hwang, Al Shaw, Lisa Song, Robin Fields
People line up for COVID-19 vaccinations at Nassau Community College on January 10, 2021 in Garden City, New York. Nassau County now has two vaccine centers as another 3.2 million New Yorkers become eligible for the vaccine (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

How inequity gets built into America’s vaccination system

Maryam Jameel, Caroline Chen
The Berkshire Family Restaurant on State Hill Road in Wyoming Tuesday morning September 29, 2020. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

Why opening restaurants is exactly what the coronavirus wants us to do

Caroline Chen
A studio shot of two glass vials with medicine and a single syringe ready for an injection or vaccination (Getty Images)

How many vaccine shots go to waste? Many states aren’t even counting

Ryan Gabrielson, Caroline Chen, Mollie Simon
Former President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House on November 13, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

How Operation Warp Speed created vaccination chaos

Caroline Chen, Isaac Arnsdorf, Ryan Gabrielson
Workers at a high school check the temperature to a student before she enters to attend classes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 13, 2020 amid the virus lockdown against the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic. (JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images)

The enraging deja vu of a third coronavirus wave

Caroline Chen
Anthony Fauci | Vaccine Vials (Salon/Getty Images)

Who decides when vaccine studies are done? Internal documents show Fauci plays a key role

Isaac Arnsdorf, Caroline Chen, Ryan Gabrielson
Donald Trump | Scientist synthesizing vaccine concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s hope for a COVID vaccine before the election? It’d take a miracle

Caroline Chen, Isaac Arnsdorf, Ryan Gabrielson
Dr. Anthony Fauci (Getty Images/Salon)

How — and when — can the coronavirus vaccine become a reality?

Caroline Chen
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)

Internal emails reveal how chaos at the CDC hindered the response to coronavirus

Caroline Chen, Marshall Allen, Lexi Churchill
A healthcare worker prepares to transport a patient on a stretcher into an ambulance at Life Care Center of Kirkland on February 29, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington. Dozens of staff and residents at Life Care Center of Kirkland are reportedly exhibiting coronavirus-like symptoms, with two confirmed cases of (COVID-19) associated with the nursing facility reported so far. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

U.S. hospitals say they’re ready for coronavirus. Their infection control violations say otherwise

Marshall Allen, Caroline Chen, J. David McSwane, Lexi Churchill
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The family wanted a do not resuscitate order. The doctors didn’t

Caroline Chen
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Citing “safety concerns,” FDA cautions national marketer of unproven stem cell treatments

Caroline Chen
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The birth-tissue profiteers

Caroline Chen
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FDA repays industry by rushing risky drugs to market

Caroline Chen