The Black American amputation epidemic
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WHO warns millions of children at risk as Covid-19 pandemic disrupts routine vaccinations
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Finland has demonstrated that it is possible to reduce the number of smokers without seeing a surge in e-cigarette users
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Florida's strategy to protect seniors from COVID-19
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Apple and Google launch exposure notification API, enabling public health authorities to release apps
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Hospitals in Latin America buckling under coronavirus strain
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A military contractors’ report circulating on Capitol Hill claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. It’s filled with information that’s just plain wrong.
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The president’s job is to manage risk. But Donald Trump is the risk: Donald Trump was a gamble. It’s not paying off.
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An entire city (Noida, India) has been told to download a controversial contact tracing app — Or face jail: "Not installing the app will be considered a violation of lockdown orders," police say
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US GDP doesn’t credit social distancing, but it should
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Virus hunters rely on faxes, paper records
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COVID has badly affected wealthy nations, what will it do to poor ones and how can they stop it with their limited means?
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Paris has a plan to keep cars out after lockdown
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“Political connections and cronyism”: In blistering whistleblower complaint, Rick Bright blasts Team Trump’s pandemic response
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What happens next? COVID-19 futures, explained with playable simulations
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‘Closing borders is ridiculous’: The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy
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How one man poisoned a city’s water supply (and saved millions of children’s lives in the process)
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A disaster waiting to happen or a bold, evidence-based response? In Sweden, it depends who you ask
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Sweden counts coronavirus deaths in care homes but many countries do not – medical officials said a third of deaths recorded last week came from nursing home residents
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English NHS releases Covid-19 decision making tool
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Why it’s so hard to make a good COVID-19 model
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Norway's largest mobile operator, Telenor, is collaborating with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health to help them track the spread of the coronavirus
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Why I’m not making COVID19 visualizations, and why you (probably) shouldn’t either
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Novelist Arundhati Roy on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next
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FDA relaxes blood donation guidelines for gay men and others
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Blood banks narrowly averted a supply crisis. But they’re ‘worried about four weeks from now.’
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Calls grow for Germany-wide use of face masks
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As the coronavirus crisis heats up, why isn't America hearing from the CDC?
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The US has been fighting the wrong war
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Public health responses to COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ships — Worldwide, February–March 2020
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Swedish PM Stefan Löfven warned over 'Russian roulette-style' Covid-19 strategy – health experts say attempt to build herd immunity is a 'mad experiment with 10m people'
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Social distancing: This is not a snow day
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Tech in the time of COVID-19
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The UK backs away from “herd immunity” coronavirus proposal amid blowback
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FDA worried about blood shortage as donation drives are canceled amid coronavirus concerns
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‘It’s just everywhere already’: How delays in testing set back the US coronavirus response
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The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified
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Hand-washing with soap and water destroys coronavirus more effectively than hand sanitizer
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Why the CDC botched its coronavirus testing
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The CDC’s rocky effort to get Americans tested for coronavirus, explained
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Why Taiwan has just forty-two coronavirus cases while neighbors report hundreds or thousands
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A future with no future: depression, the left, and the politics of mental health
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How DuPont may avoid paying to clean up a toxic 'forever chemical'
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Is change on the way for Sweden's zero tolerance drug policy? Shifting the focus away from zero tolerance to the pursuit of zero drug-related deaths
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Chinese scholar and outspoken critic directly blames Xi Jinping for severity of viral outbreak
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Vaping: What people are getting wrong
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Undone science: When research fails polluted communities
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The UK has one of the most equitable health care systems in the world. Here’s how.
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Analysis of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland
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China coronavirus spread is accelerating, Xi Jinping warns
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