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Nicole Karlis is an award-winning staff writer at Salon, specializing in health and science. She is also the author of the upcoming book “Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community During Times of Crisis.”

An elderly man, a resident of the sprawling township of Alexandra in Johannesburg, opens his mouth to receive a testing swab for COVID-19 coronavirus at a screening and testing drive in front of the Madala Hostel, on April 27, 2020. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

A new COVID vaccine is 66% effective — but how much does vaccine efficacy matter?

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Young guy and girl sitting on a couch looking bored (Getty Images)

Is the pandemic making our social skills decay? Psychologists think so

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Pregnant woman standing by the big window with face medical mask on (Getty Images)

Pregnant women pass coronavirus antibodies to placenta, study finds

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An empty public restroom (Getty Images)

Is it safe to use public restrooms during the pandemic?

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Ill woman checking thermometer having fever (Getty Images)

Doctors puzzled as to why coronavirus is affecting some women’s menstrual cycles

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Patients wait and are observed for an adverse reactions following their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at the Amazon Meeting Center in downtown Seattle, Washington on January 24, 2021. - Amazon is partnering with Virginia Mason for a one-day pop-up clinic on January 24. 2021 that aims to vaccinate 2,000 people at the companys Meeting Center near downtown Seattle. Virginia Mason is handling vaccine administration, while Amazon is providing the location and help with logistics. (GRANT HINDSLEY/AFP via Getty Images)

Despite attempts at equity, white Americans are being vaccinated at higher rate than Blacks, Latinos

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N95 and KN95 Face Masks (Getty Images)

COVID-19 face masks: How high-filtration masks — like the KN95, N95 and KN94 — differ

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Ludwig Joseph and granddaughter, Nicole Karlis | Ludwig with family and friends on vacation (Photo illustration. by Salon/Nicole Karlis/USC Shoah Foundation)

My grandfather survived the Holocaust. Here’s what his story tells me about today

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Pete Buttigieg, U.S. secretary of transportation nominee for U.S. President Joe Biden, puts on a protective mask during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee confirmation hearing on January 21, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Buttigieg, is pledging to carry out the administration’s ambitious agenda to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, calling it a “generational opportunity” to create new jobs, fight economic inequality and stem climate change. (Stefani Reynolds - Pool/Getty Images)

The case for (and against) wearing two masks

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Distressed doctor wearing protective suit to fight coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

A new coronavirus strain discovered in Los Angeles may be behind the surge in cases there

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Why profound personal connections are lacking in our lives — and how to find them

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Mars (Getty Images)

Scientists get closer to understanding Mars’ ice ages by looking to Antarctica

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Staff and volunteers distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to people as they remain in their vehicles at The Forum in Inglewood Tuesday. The Forum is one of five mass-vaccination sites that opened Tuesday in Los Angeles county. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Why California’s vaccine roll-out has been such a mess

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Firefighters and paramedics with Anne Arundel County Fire Department wear enhanced PPE, during the coronavirus pandemic, as they treat a patient in cardiac arrest as a result of a drug overdose on May 6, 2020, in Brooklyn, Maryland. (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Cardiac arrest deaths are rising — and the culprit may be “stealth” opioid overdoses

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Dr. Jordan Hottenstein checks a patient's teeth. At Central Berks Dental Center in Leesport Tuesday afternoon October 13, 2020. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

Is it safe to go to the dentist?

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EMT Matt Johnson of Livingston Fire and Rescue receives a Moderna COVID-19 vaccination at the Park County Health Departments storefront clinic on January 5, 2021 in Livingston, Montana. (William Campbell/Getty Images)

Volunteers help out at COVID-19 vaccine centers in exchange for an early vaccine

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Poudre Valley Hospital ICU Nurse Megan Tschacher shows off her vaccination card after getting the first round of Covid-19 vaccines at UC Health Poudre Valley Hospital on December 14, 2020 in Fort Collins, Colorado. The first Covid-19 vaccines were administered in Colorado to frontline health care workers in Fort Collins and Colorado Springs today. (Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

What is a coronavirus vaccine card, and do you need to keep it?

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Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb (Photo illustration by Salon/Olivia Falcigno/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Why physicist Avi Loeb thinks there’s a “serious possibility” that ‘Oumuamua was an alien spacecraft

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Immunity after coronavirus infection lasts at least five months, scientists say

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Protesters enter the Senate Chamber on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. Pro-Trump protesters have entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Capitol riot moms stand behind — or alongside — their sons

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Child with face mask back at school after covid-19 quarantine and lockdown (Getty Images)

Is it safe to send your kids to school?

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New covid-19 coronavirus mutation (Getty Images)

Coronavirus variant found in South Africa worries scientists

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Joe Biden (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Biden will release all vaccine doses when he takes office: report

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This illustration picture shows social media application logo from Parler displayed on a smartphone with its website in the background. Parler, founded in Nevada in 2018, bills itself as an alternative to "ideological suppression" at other social networks. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

On Parler, the MAGA social media platform, Trump supporters are ready for insurrection

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