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Liz Szabo

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

Hospital financial decisions play a role in the critical shortage of pediatric beds for RSV patients

Liz Szabo
A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Unraveling the interplay of omicron, reinfections, and long COVID

Liz Szabo
Two vaccine syringes (Getty Images/golibtolibov)

Why won’t more older Americans get their COVID booster?

Liz Szabo
Pregnant woman getting vaccine (Getty Images/ArtMarie)

Why pregnant people were left behind while vaccines moved at “warp speed” to help the masses

Liz Szabo
A bustling hallway in the emergency department at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital due to coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Oceanside, New York (Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images)

Scientists search for cause of mysterious COVID-related inflammation in children

Liz Szabo
Coronavirus, Covid-19 spores (Getty Images)

Unraveling the mysterious mutations that make delta the most transmissible COVID virus yet

Liz Szabo
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)

The “grief pandemic” will torment Americans for years

Liz Szabo
Coronavirus and blood cells (Getty Images)

Coronavirus deranges the immune system in complex and deadly ways

Liz Szabo
A protester holds an anti-vaccination sign as supporters of President Donald Trump rally to reopen California as the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen, on May 16, 2020 in Woodland Hills, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Anti-vaccine activists peddle theories that COVID shots are deadly, undermining vaccination

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

5 reasons to wear a mask even after you’re vaccinated

Liz Szabo
Corona virus close up wide shot in blood (Getty Images)

Many U.S. health experts underestimated the coronavirus — until it was too late

Liz Szabo
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

JoNel Aleccia, Liz Szabo
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Inside the flawed White House testing scheme that failed to protect Trump

Rachana Pradhan, Lauren Weber, Liz Szabo
Donald Trump | Scientist synthesizing vaccine concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The nation is not ready for a COVID-19 vaccine

Liz Szabo
Dr. Anthony Fauci (Getty Images/Salon)

Fauci remains unfazed as scientists rely on unproven methods to create COVID vaccines

Liz Szabo
Police officers in riot gear stand in formation at a cross street as they make their way to where protesters are gathered on May 30, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. Protests have erupted after recent police-related incidents resulting in the deaths of African-Americans Breonna Taylor in Louisville and George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Police shoot protesters with rubber bullets that can kill, blind or maim for life

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

Chasing the elusive dream of a COVID cure

Liz Szabo
Protesters march to the Scottish Parliament in an "anti-swine flu vaccination protest" along the Royal Mile Edinburgh. (David Cheskin/PA Images via Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxers are latching onto the coronavirus pandemic to bolster their movement

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

A looming catastrophe: True toll of COVID-19 On U.S. health care workers remains unknown

Christina Jewett, Liz Szabo
Fans attend Emerald City Comic Con at Washington State Convention Center on March 1, 2018 in Seattle, Washington. (Suzi Pratt/Getty Images)

With coronavirus lurking, conferences wrestle with whether to cancel

Liz Szabo
People wearing facemasks to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the city, wait at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan on January 24, 2020. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty)

Something far deadlier than the Wuhan virus lurks near you

Liz Szabo
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A reality check on artificial intelligence: Are health care claims overblown?

Liz Szabo
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Trump wants to take guns away from people in crisis. Will that work?

Liz Szabo
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