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Mistrust, fights and blood sport: How COVID-19 trauma is shaping the 2024 election
The coronavirus is seldom mentioned by the campaigns of President Biden and Donald Trump, even though its...
There’s a new highly transmissible COVID-19 variant. Could FLiRT lead to a summer uptick?
The two FLiRT subvariants combined comprised an estimated 35% of coronavirus infections nationally for the two-week period...
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Congress likely to kick the can on COVID-era telehealth policies
Federal lawmakers face a year-end deadline to solidify or scuttle an array of COVID-era payment...
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Four years after shelter-in-place, COVID-19 misinformation persists
Here are some of the most persistent COVID misinformation narratives.
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COVID-19 can damage the heart, even without infecting it, study says
Does the virus damage the heart because it directly infects heart tissue or because of...
Lambos. Jewels. How ‘easy money’ from Uncle Sam made Miami a feast for PPP fraudsters
The easy money lured a cross-section of society, from business people and bankers to police...
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Health workers fear it’s profits before protection as CDC revisits airborne transmission
Many worry the CDC is repeating past mistakes as it develops a crucial set of...
Why COVID patients who could most benefit from Paxlovid still aren’t getting it
Shrunken confidence in government health programs is one reason the drug isn’t reaching those who...
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Hidden COVID virus found more than a year after infection
A clue to long COVID? UCSF discovery of persistent viral fragments could guide the search...
Paul Offit looks back on COVID-19, misinformation, and how public health lost the public’s trust in new book
Paul Offit had a front-row seat to federal public health agencies’ pandemic response.