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Ostrich Paradox: How our inability to process risk is crippling responses to COVID

Lia Kvatum | Washington Post | 
The question is… Why do some take the threat of the virus more seriously than others? Your risk of contracting ...
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Geopolitical COVID challenge: China and Russia providing not-fully-vetted vaccines, targeting the Middle East

Eva Dou, Isabelle Khurshudyan | Washington Post | 
China's Sinopharm announced [September 14] that it would provide emergency doses of one of its two trial vaccines to the ...
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CDC guidance in turmoil over conflicting evidence whether COVID can be transmitted through the air over longer distances

[On Monday, September 21,] the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention edited its Web page describing how the novel coronavirus spreads, ...
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Poop detection is the latest ‘cutting-edge’ test to protect returning college students from COVID

Jaclyn Peiser | Washington Post | 
The [University of Arizona] is regularly screening the sewage from each dorm, searching for traces of the virus. On [September ...
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Meet the scientists who research mosquitoes by feeding them their own blood

Elizabeth Landau | Washington Post | 
The colony was picky — it wouldn’t feed on anesthetized mice or drink from a container covered with a membrane ...
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Trump won’t join cooperative global effort to develop and distribute COVID vaccines because of his opposition to WHO

More than 170 countries are in talks to participate in the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) Facility, which aims to speed vaccine ...
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Science checking Trump’s touted convalescent plasma COVID treatment

President Trump announced [August 23] that he had helped break through a regulatory “logjam” to grant emergency authorization of convalescent ...
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Will schools maintain immunization requirements as vaccination rates plunge?

Nat Malkus | Washington Post | 
[E]ven as the coronavirus dominates concerns of parents and school leaders, the dwindling rates of routine childhood vaccinations are quietly ...
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‘Like, wow’!: 3-D ultrasound images allow blind parents ‘glimpse’ at their newborn’s face

Debra Bruno | Washington Post | 
[S]ophisticated technology allows [blind parents] to “see” their little ones before they are born by creating a 3-D image to ...
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FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn: ‘Decisions about approving vaccines will be based solely on good science’

Stephen Hahn | Washington Post | 
The framework in the United States to support a covid-19 vaccine is now in place. Testing is underway and manufacturing ...
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97,000 school-age children tested positive for COVID-19 in late July — most had no or mild symptoms

Pictures of packed school hallways in Georgia and news of positive tests on the first day of classes in Indiana ...
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Covid-19 targets poor service workers in densely populated enclaves. Can we turn that around?

George Rutherford | Washington Post | 
California is a large and complex state, and our coronavirus challenge, too, is anything but straightforward. In fact, the best way to ...
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No HIV vaccine yet but decades of false starts provide guidance to coronavirus researchers

Thirty-six years [after the virus's discovery], there still is no HIV vaccine. But instead of being a cautionary tale of ...
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Wanted: Volunteers willing to risk getting sick from the coronavirus for the greater good

Carolyn Johnson | Washington Post | 
The Covid-19 Prevention Network, which knits together the existing federal clinical trial infrastructure developed largely to test HIV vaccines and ...
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Maybe Darwin got it wrong: ‘Survival of the Friendliest’

Marlene Cimons | Washington Post | 
Most people assume that Darwin was talking about physical strength when referring to “survival of the fittest,” meaning that a ...
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The novel coronavirus is a random murderer

Six months into a pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 people globally, scientists are still trying to understand the ...
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Anti-vax activists exploit dark history of Tuskegee syphilis study to stir Black opposition to COVID-19 vaccines

Peter Jamison | Washington Post | 
[There’s] a remarkable new alliance between the anti-vaccine movement and black leaders in Colorado. Among those who testified against [a ...
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In over 10,000 sessions, secret supervised opioid injection site hasn’t had a single death or hospitalization

Operators of the supervised injection site say that over the course of five years, 10,514 injections and 33 opioid-involved overdoses, ...
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Trump administration pushing FDA to re-authorize hydroxychloroquine based on recent questionable study

[Trade advisor Peter Navarro is pushing for] a second emergency authorization for the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19, the ...
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COVID-19 can be passed from mother to fetus

Lenny Bernstein | Washington Post | 
[COVID-19] can be passed to fetuses and newborns, according to results of a small study released [July 9]. Just two ...
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Big risk, big rewards: Betting on RNA to make cheaper, faster coronavirus vaccines

[A] promising — but unproven — new generation of vaccine technologies is based on deploying a tiny snip of genetic ...
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Summer heat waves can turn common medications deadly

Marlene Cimons | Washington Post | 
Heat waves kill more people than any other single weather event, making them dangerous by themselves. But if you are ...
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Flu vaccine makers plan to increase production as they brace for unprecedented winter season

Lena Sun | Washington Post | 
Even though flu season doesn’t begin until the fall, major flu vaccine manufacturers say they plan to boost production by ...
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Even with a vaccine, COVID-19 might be here to stay. Here’s what that means for society

It is a daunting proposition — a coronavirus-tinged world without a foreseeable end. But experts in epidemiology, disaster planning and ...
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Infographic: How COVID-19 mutated to infect the world

A change in the virus was appearing again and again. This mutation, associated with outbreaks in Europe and New York, ...
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Quest for coronavirus vaccine is the new ‘space race’. Will bragging rights go to China or the US?

Carolyn Johnson, Eva Dou | Washington Post | 
The same day in mid-March that the United States launched human testing of its first experimental coronavirus vaccine, scientists in ...
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Social and health complications in children linked to aging parents. Should age restrictions on fertility treatments be raised?

Eric Berger | Washington Post | 
For nearly 40 years, fertility treatment has grown ever more advanced and so entrenched that it’s not uncommon for couples ...
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Trump administration drops transgender health protections

Ariana Eunjung Cha | Washington Post | 
The Trump administration on Friday [June 12] reversed non-discrimination protections for transgender people in health care, a policy shift that ...
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