Sweden has the highest proportion of drug-related deaths in the European Union, with eighty-one cases per one million citizens – nearly four times higher than the EU average
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CDC coronavirus testers pulled from Minnesota after hostile and racist encounters
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State Health Director warns coronavirus is widespread on Oahu
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The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crash have caused 5.4 million Americans to lose health insurance, the largest drop ever recorded
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Sweden has become the world’s cautionary tale
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Do Americans understand how badly they’re doing?
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Into the fog: How Britain lost track of the coronavirus
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Norway's data inspectorate has banned the use of public health app Smittestopp to control the spread of COVID-19 over data protection concerns
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Seattle’s coronavirus surveillance program resumes after being shut down by the FDA
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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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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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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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Jair Bolsonaro's health minister quits, deepening Brazil coronavirus crisis
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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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“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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The Amish health care system
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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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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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For jobless Americans, Obamacare is still a potential lifeline
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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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New York is merging all its hospitals to battle the coronavirus
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Why you should not put garlic in your vagina, as a treatment for yeast or anything else
@Jennifer Gunter: Why you should not put garlic in your vagina.A thread.Garlic contains allicin, in THE LAB it MAY have antifungal (i.e. anti yeast) properties. This is in a lab, not even in mice. Just a dish of cells. Your vagina is not a dish of cells. #vaginaisanogarliczone 1/8
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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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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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LA, other SoCal cities cracking down on crowds at parks, beaches to stem spread of COVID-19
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Mexican president passes coronavirus buck to allies, rivals, business
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Social distancing: This is not a snow day
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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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About 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. are at greater risk of developing serious illness if infected with coronavirus, due to age or underlying health conditions
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Infected people without symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus more than we realized
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‘It’s just everywhere already’: How delays in testing set back the US coronavirus response
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