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For a formidable adversary with plenty of secrets up its sleeve, the coronavirus presented one bright bull’s-eye for the world’s response. Scientists, in record time, developed vaccines based on the …
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This special report is the second of two parts. Read part one here. When Quinn Capers IV took over as associate dean of admissions at the Ohio State University College …
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This special report is the first of two parts. The 764-page report minces no words about the inequality rife throughout medical care: “Racial and ethnic minorities experience a lower quality …
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To most Americans, the name MarketScan means nothing. But most Americans mean everything to MarketScan. As a repository of sensitive patient information, the company’s databases churn silently behind the scenes …
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Around the world this spring, country after country awaited their first Covid-19 vaccine shipments. They’d been promised deliveries by COVAX, the ambitious global collaboration set up to give people in …
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For years, Latasha Taylor resisted her mother’s requests to join her in the garden at sunrise. She keeps this memory with her ever since her mother died from Covid-19 in …
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Sisters Martha Huggins (left) and Mary Moore (right) and their friend Ann attend the funeral of Daisy Pace, who died of Covid-19. “Ever since I knew her, she was a …
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Physician Marlo Paul, seen in her Alabama home, has been making house calls during the pandemic in medically underserved Hale County. HALE COUNTY, Ala. — Small, cramped trailer homes and …
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Emerson Hilas chases rabbits through a sugarcane field that was recently burned. To process the product and prepare the land, sugar companies openly burn hundreds of thousands of acres of …
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