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Special Report

The Road Ahead: Charting the coronavirus pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond

By Andrew Joseph

Regina Barzilay
Health Tech

When AI is the opposite of sinister: An MIT researcher is held up as model of how algorithms can benefit humanity

By Rebecca Robbins

Tortoise and Hare
Health

Here come the tortoises: In the race for a Covid-19 vaccine, slow starters could still win out

By Helen Branswell

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First Opinion

Fast, low-cost testing is essential for averting a second wave of Covid-19

By Menachem Fromer, Paul Varghese, and Robert M. Califf

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Exclusive

Covid-19 vaccine trial participant had serious neurological symptoms, but could be discharged today, AstraZeneca CEO says

By Adam Feuerstein

Dolly the sheep was birthed by cloning
First Opinion

Human reproductive cloning: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

By Henry T. Greely

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First Opinion

A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data

By John P.A. Ioannidis

Maria Van Kerkhove
Health

‘We don’t actually have that answer yet’: WHO clarifies comments on asymptomatic spread of Covid-19

By Andrew Joseph

Health

The Covid-19 Tracker

By STAT

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Health

What explains Covid-19’s lethality for the elderly? Scientists look to ‘twilight’ of the immune system

By Sharon Begley

Brain made of pills
Health

New research finds unapproved drugs in brain-boosting supplements

By Alexander Spinelli

Reno, Nevada Sign
Health

Scientists are reporting several cases of Covid-19 reinfection — but the implications are complicated

By Andrew Joseph

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Health

Positive Covid-19 tests kept a mom and baby apart for 55 days. Experts see it as a bigger testing problem

By Helen Branswell

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Politics

Q&A: Vivek Murthy, a top Biden adviser, on Covid-19 vaccines, the drug industry, and the future of public health

By Lev Facher

SARS-CoV-2 virus Transmission electron micrograph
Health

Not trusting the FDA, Black doctors’ group creates panel to vet Covid-19 vaccines

By Eric Boodman

Lobotomy illustration
First Opinion

Not all there: My mother’s lobotomy

By Mona Gable

Bloom Energy Ventilators
Health

With ventilators running out, doctors say the machines are overused for Covid-19

By Sharon Begley

calendar page flipping Covid-19 symptoms
First Opinion

My Covid-19 symptoms have lasted more than 100 days, and I’m not alone. Will they ever end?

By Yochai Re'em

Italy vaccine manufacturing
Health

64 high-income nations join effort to expand global access to Covid-19 vaccines, but U.S. and China do not

By Helen Branswell

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