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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 book “Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community During Times of Crisis.”

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A man wearing a surgical face mask walks passed closed shops (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

As stores shutter, petrified small business owners are in uncharted territory

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Placards expressing neighborhood concerns of rising rents and housing displacement. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GettyImages)

As job losses accelerate, tenants across the country organize rent strikes

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Instacart employee Monica Ortega wears gloves while using her cellphone to check orders while picking up groceries from a supermarket for delivery on March 19, 2020 in North Hollywood, California. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Instacart’s grocery delivery workers are striking today

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Truthdig's homepage hiatus message, March 26, 2020 (Truthdig)

Truthdig staff laid off amid work stoppage

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Some of the more than 150 people in line wait for an grocery store to open Tuesday, March 17, 2020 (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Food service workers say management, customers aren’t taking safety seriously

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Housing experts debunk theory of “exploding” rental market due to coronavirus-prompted offloading

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Donald Trump | Chloroquine Phosphate (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Is Trump’s much-touted chloroquine really a “game changer” for COVID-19? Not exactly

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An activist shows sex workers how to apply hand sanitizer during an awareness campaign to promote safe measures against the spread of the new Coronavirus, COVID-19. (Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images)

Sex workers are stressed, anxious and depressed amid COVID-19 pandemic

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Some commuters opt to wear respiratory masks during the afternoon commute at Montgomery BART station in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. On Wednesday, one person became the first victim in California to die from the coronavirus disease. Also, the first two cases in San Francisco were reported the following day. (Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

The coronavirus pandemic is heightening the class divide in the Bay Area

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A woman wears a medical mask on the subway as New York City confronts the coronavirus outbreak on March 11, 2020 in New York City. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday evening that he is restricting passenger travel from 26 European nations to the U.S. in an effort to contain the coronavirus which is rapidly spreading throughout the world and America. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Why “social distancing,” if done wrong, can make you more vulnerable

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A disinfectant hand sanitizer is seen at United Nations Headquarters after it closed to the public "out of an abundance of caution" because of the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in New York, United States on March 11, 2020. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

US may have already failed to contain COVID-19, experts say

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This illustration shows a night-side view of the exoplanet WASP-76b. The ultra-hot giant exoplanet has a day side where temperatures climb above 2400 degrees Celsius, high enough to vaporise metals. Strong winds carry iron vapour to the cooler night side where it condenses into iron droplets. To the left of the image, we see the evening border of the exoplanet, where it transitions from day to night. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Astronomers discover an exoplanet where it rains iron

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Bernie Sanders, and Joe Biden (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

On the most important issue of all, Bernie Sanders is the clear winner over Joe Biden

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Shahid Buttar at a rally (Shahid Buttar 2020 Campaign)

Meet Shahid Buttar, Nancy Pelosi’s challenger from the left

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Bonnie Castillo, executive director of National Nurses United, speaks during a news conference at the National Nurses United offices on March 05, 2020 in Oakland, California. The National Nurses United held a news conference to express concerns that the Centers for Disease Control is not doing enough to help protect and test healthcare workers who are exposed to patients with the COVID-19 virus. (National Nurses United; Coronavirus)

Nurse union issues grave warning on COVID-19: “The nation’s hospitals are unprepared”

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Ann Druyan (Yurie Kwon/Beck Media/Getty Images)

Why “Cosmos” producer Ann Druyan is optimistic about the future

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UC Santa Cruz grad student strike (Instagram/@payusmoreucsc)

“Not surprising, but yet unbelievable”: UC Santa Cruz students fired over wildcat strike

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Members of the East Bay chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America gather at a bar in West Oakland to watch the results of the primaries on Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Sen. Sanders was triumphant in the California primary. (Salon/Nicole Karlis)

“People believe another world is possible”: Sanders supporters party in California after huge win

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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)

Suspicious pattern of coronavirus infection hints that hundreds may be undiagnosed

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Shahid Buttar (Derrick Liu/Shahid Buttar Official Campaign)

In democratic socialist Shahid Buttar, a leftist challenger to Nancy Pelosi emerges

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The Ebola Virus and the Coronavirus looked at through a microscope (Getty Images)

Why COVID-19 is more insidious than other coronaviruses

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A team of nurses with Livio Health Group took the vital signs of Anthony Nichols 52, at the large homeless camp Monday September 24, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN. Nichols said that he has a heart condition and had not been taking his medicine; he was later transported to local hospital by ambulance. Nichols said that he had been staying at the camp for only two days. (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

America’s patchwork, for-profit healthcare system poised to worsen coronavirus outbreak

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Uber driver driving a logo branded car (Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Turns out Uber and Lyft rides are not eco-friendly at all: study

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) raises his fist as he arrives onstage after winning the Nevada caucuses during a campaign rally at Cowboys Dancehall on February 22, 2020 in San Antonio, Texas. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Bernie Sanders wins big in Nevada: On the Las Vegas Strip, casino workers voiced their support

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