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Surveying the pandemic's death toll, those of us tasked with looking to the future are left with a nagging mental puzzle: how do we make sure this never happens again?
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In the space of a year we have make huge strides in understanding, diagnosing, treating and preventing COVID-19. History will record this time as one of the greatest periods for scientific advancements.
What if you’ve already had Covid-19 — do you still need a vaccine? Experts tackle questions about vaccine immunity.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci joins MSNBC's Ari Melber in a special interview to discuss the Covid-19 vaccine, to dispel related myths and skepticism and to explain why he and Biden will likely take it publicly.
If society needs to rapidly invent and deliver a vaccine – a global public good – with taxpayer money, why are U.S. federal agencies relinquishing the government’s ability to share and deploy these inventions and production processes with the world?
A new statistic shows that health-care workers are running out of space to treat COVID-19 patients.
Chicago hospitals struggle to recruit people of color, hit disproportionately hard by COVID, for vaccine research. ‘It will be a double tragedy if African Americans refuse to take the vaccine,’ one expert says.
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