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Scene setter images outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Atlanta, GA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Thousands of experts hired to aid public health departments are losing their jobs

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Private equity sees the billions in eye care as firms target high-profit procedures

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Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers gathered at Indiana University's Sample Gates to protest against mandatory Covid vaccinations IU is requiring for students, staff and faculty during the upcoming fall semester. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Over half of states have rolled back public health powers in pandemic

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Close up view of a doctor wearing surgical mask and a face shield in a hospital COVID ward. (Getty Images)

Lack of a vaccine mandate becomes competitive advantage in hospital staffing wars

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Boeing tested air purifiers like those widely used in schools. It decided not to use them in planes

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Black Americans are getting vaccinated at lower rates than white Americans

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Dr. Jason Smith displays his bandage after being administered 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)

Inside the first chaotic days of the effort to vaccinate America

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COVID takes challenge of tracking infectious college students to new level

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Inside the flawed White House testing scheme that failed to protect Trump

Rachana Pradhan, Lauren Weber, Liz Szabo
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to holds up his face mask during a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House July 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump focused on his administration's handling of the global coronavirus pandemic. Poll numbers about his handling of COVID-19 have been falling as cases of deadly virus have spiked across the country. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump’s mask hypocrisy: How COVID memos contradict the White House’s public face

Lauren Weber, Katheryn Houghton
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Across the country, public health officials are getting fired in throes of pandemic

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Doctors treat a homeless person suffering from an ear infection on July 25, 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela. Panabus is a network of assistance for homeless people, which seeks to enhance the dignity of those who care for, offering through mobile units the basic services of: personal hygiene, primary medical care and community kitchen. (Carolina Cabral/Getty Images)

Hollowed-out public health system faces more cuts amid coronavirus crisis

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Hospital executive charged in $1.4B rural hospital billing scheme

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“We vape, we vote”: How vaping crackdowns are politicizing vapers

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What the possible end of abortions in Missouri means for neighboring states

Lauren Weber
FILE - In this May 23, 1944 file photo, the organism treponema pallidum, which causes syphilis, is seen through an electron microscope. Las Vegas is experiencing a syphilis outbreak, as health officials warn of a national spike in cases that some are tying to increased testing, as well as the prevalence of anonymous sex through social media and a less consistent use of condoms. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

As syphilis invades rural America, a fraying health safety net is failing to stop it

Lauren Weber