The US federal government will now allow health care providers to deny care to anyone they perceive as trans or gay
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'More masks than jellyfish': Coronavirus waste ends up in ocean
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Crisis Text Line CEO fired amid staff revolt
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Seattle’s coronavirus surveillance program resumes after being shut down by the FDA
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Brazil’s favelas, neglected by the government, organize their own coronavirus fight
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Black Lives Matter protesters aren’t being tracked with Covid-19 surveillance tech. Not yet
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Man behind Sweden’s controversial virus strategy admits mistakes
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European Union proposes $825 billion coronavirus rescue plan, giving Brussels power to raise money for first time
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The Black American amputation epidemic
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Andrew Cuomo gave legal immunity to nursing home execs after big campaign donations. Critics say data proves New York's liability shield is linked to higher nursing home death rates.
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Ontario to explore criminal charges against five long-term care homes in scathing military report, says Premier Doug Ford
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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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Families of children with disabilities face acute challenges under COVID-19
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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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Johnson & Johnson to stop selling baby powder in US and Canada after tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers claiming its talc products, including Johnson’s Baby Powder, caused their cancer
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Hospitals in Latin America buckling under coronavirus strain
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‘Hard stop’: US states could lose National Guard virus workers
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Straight talk from ex-US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the long slog ahead
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Explosive whistleblower complaint by ousted US Health and Human Services official says he was pressured to give contract to Donald Trump-friendly pharma firm
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What we know about your chances of catching the virus outdoors: Pandemic life is safer outdoors, in part, because even a light wind will quickly dilute the virus
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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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TSA working on plan to check temperatures at some American airports
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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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Jair Bolsonaro's health minister quits, deepening Brazil coronavirus crisis
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Science fiction builds mental resiliency in young readers
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Virus hunters rely on faxes, paper records
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The four men responsible for America’s COVID-19 test disaster
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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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NHS publishes source code for UK contact tracing app
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Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing – first major study of scheme comes as economic toll of coronavirus prompts fresh interest in idea
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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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How Jared Kushner's volunteer force led a fumbling hunt for US supplies
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What happens next? COVID-19 futures, explained with playable simulations
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How Georgia is reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic
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Lockdown productivity: Spaceship you
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Hyperdome - the safest place to reach out
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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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The Amish health care system
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A handful of US cities have passed soda taxes, but are they working?
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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro fires popular health minister
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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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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo orders all people to wear face coverings in public
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South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots
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English NHS releases Covid-19 decision making tool
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