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Covid hasn’t given up all its secrets. Here are 6 mysteries experts hope to unravel

19.04.2022

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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Health

The nation hasn’t made much progress on health equity. These leaders forged ahead anyway

24.02.2022

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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Health

20 years ago, a landmark report spotlighted systemic racism in medicine. Why has so little changed?

23.02.2022

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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Health Tech

How a decades-old database became a hugely profitable dossier on the health of 270 million Americans

01.02.2022

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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‘Naively ambitious’: How COVAX failed on its promise to vaccinate the world

08.10.2021

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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Coronavirus

A hospital, and a family, lost during the pandemic

21.09.2021

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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A community pioneer lost, and remembered

21.09.2021

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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Coronavirus

The land as medicine

21.09.2021

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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The Guardian of the Glades

21.09.2021

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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