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Organ centers to transplant patients: get a COVID shot or move down on waitlist

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Prescription medication is strewn about, with pill bottles in the deep background. (Getty Images)

A daily pill to treat COVID could be just months away, scientists say

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

These governors push experimental antibody therapy — but shun vaccine and mask mandates

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Blood is drawn from a young woman ( Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

“Tainted” blood: Covid skeptics request blood transfusions from unvaccinated donors

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Health officials carry a dead body of coronavirus (Covid-19) victim on a stretcher to container morgues by the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Thousands of young children lost parents to COVID. Where’s help for them?

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COVID spawns “completely new category” of organ transplants

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A nurse looks at test tubes after taking a blood sample from a patient suffering from Covid 19, in the Covid-19 department at the Bari Polyclinic on May 05, 2020 in Bari, Italy. (Donato Fasano/Getty Images)

The hype has faded, but don’t count out convalescent plasma in COVID battle

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Dr. Jason Smith receives a COVID-19 vaccination at University of Louisville Hospital on December 14, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine became available for specified use on Monday morning to five members of hospital staff. Dr. Smith became the first recipient of the vaccine in the state of Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Hospitals scramble to prioritize which workers are first for COVID shots

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Demand for COVID vaccines expected to get heated — and fast

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A needle is placed in the blood and plasma donation centre of the Institute for Transfusion Medicine Suhl. The Minister of Health has called on the Thuringians to donate blood. With the return of hospitals to regular operations, the need is also increasing again, she said. (Martin Schutt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Time to discuss potentially unpleasant side effects of COVID shots? Scientists say yes

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edics work with a COVID-19 patient at the isolation ward of Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan near the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on July 29, 2020. (JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Dozens of U.S. hospitals poised to defy FDA’s directive on COVID plasma

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In this Thursday, May 7, 2015 photo, Victoria Goss, founder of Last Chance Corral, stands in the medical supply room as she waits for the result of a colostrum test in Athens, Ohio. Every new foal brought to rescue critical for the development of animal's immune system. In some cases, the foal is separated from the mother before the antibody transfer occurs, requiring intervention at the rescue. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (AP)

Consumer beware: Coronavirus antibody tests are still a work in progress

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A worker removes the flowers from a wreath in Athens, Friday, July 17, 2015. Funeral homes here are struggling to cope with banking restrictions _ with a modest funeral costing more the 15 times the daily ATM withdrawal limit _ in a country that traditionally carries out funerals shortly after death and almost everything is paid for in cash. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) (AP)

Facing coronavirus at the funeral home: Families forced to ponder death due to COVID-19

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Blood drives — and donors — fall off as coronavirus worries grow

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Male nurse doing routine checkup of senior patient in hospital room (Getty Images/Ridofranz)

Nursing home nightmare: Coronavirus outbreak spotlights risk in elder care facilities

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How easy are vaccine exemptions? Take a look at the Oregon model

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Insured but still in debt: 5 jobs pulling In $100K a year no match for medical bills

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Caylyn Otto stands next to her son, Oliver, at the Phoenix Children's Hospital in Phoenix on Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. Born nearly seven weeks early, the baby is one of the youngest heart transplant recipients at Phoenix Children's Hospital. Doctors say Oliver, who was due Feb. 20, has been doing remarkably well post-transplant. At background left is his father, Chris Crawford. (AP Photo/Terry Tang) (AP)

No cash, no heart. Transplant centers require proof of payment

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In throes of turkey Salmonella outbreak, don’t invite illness to your table

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Unlocked and loaded: Families confront dementia and guns

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Oregon medical students face tough test: Talking about dying

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“Aggressive” new advance directive would let dementia patients refuse food

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Trump’s perfect score on brain test spawns DIY cognitive exam

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At some veterans homes, aid-in-dying is not an option

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