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Is artificial intelligence (AI) medicine racially biased?

The power of artificial intelligence has transformed health care by using massive datasets to improve diagnostics, treatment, records management, and patient ...
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Will schools maintain immunization requirements as vaccination rates plunge?

[E]ven as the coronavirus dominates concerns of parents and school leaders, the dwindling rates of routine childhood vaccinations are quietly ...
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Future pandemics: Where dangerous pathogens lie in wait

According to an international research team of Chinese, European, and U.S. scientists, the SARS-CoV-2 lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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Trump administration, CDC fumbling efforts to push back against vaccine deniers

While anti-vaxxers flood social media with lies about the upcoming coronavirus vaccine -- that it contains monkey brains, that it's ...
Podcast: Vaccines take years to develop? This one took 43 days

Podcast: Vaccines take years to develop? This one took 43 days

Most experts agree that the COVID19 pandemic will not end until a vaccine is available. But traditionally, vaccines take a decade ...
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Federal government systematically shortchanging Black communities in distributing COVID aid

[A] study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that… funding inequities resulted from a formula that allocated large chunks of a ...
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Vaccine danger? Rare complications after getting a shot could increase severity of COVID-19

Vaccines are designed to produce immune-system agents, including antibodies, that lock onto a virus and thereby neutralize it. In cases ...
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Myocarditis and potential heart damage caused by COVID may be biggest challenge to resuscitating college sports

A small but growing body of evidence shows that COVID-19 can damage the heart, sometimes fatally, even in a previously ...
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Viewpoint: Media focus on COVID-19 deaths ignores lasting impact of ‘calamitous pandemic’

The media regularly reports about deaths from COVID-19 as if that is the whole story. But it's not. COVID-19 doesn't ...
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Facebook, Twitter shut down sequel to viral COVID-19 misinformation video Plandemic

Major social-media platforms hindered the spread of a sequel to viral coronavirus conspiracy theory video “Plandemic” on [August 18], months ...
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Can acupuncture treat COVID-19?

[Researcher Qiufu] Ma and his team set out to investigate whether and how electric stimulation using acupuncture, which only involves ...
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COVID and suicide: More than one quarter of young adults contemplated taking their life in the last two months

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data drawn from a survey done June 24 through 30. The data ...
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‘Will a COVID vaccine work on the grossly overweight? Our prediction is no’

[I]n the United States, where at least 4.6 million people have been infected and nearly 155,000 have died, the promise ...
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Natural immunity: Some people who have not gotten the virus may be naturally protected

[A] study, published in the journal Nature on [July 29], found that among a sample of 68 healthy adults in Germany who ...
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Would you volunteer to get intentionally infected with COVID?

U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to manufacture a strain of the novel coronavirus that could be used in human ...
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Bill Gates: ‘The majority of all US COVID-19 tests are completely garbage’

An early Cassandra who warned of our lack of preparedness for a global pandemic, [Bill Gates] became one of the most credible ...
$10 COVID saliva test with results in three hours approved for rollout

$10 COVID saliva test with results in three hours approved for rollout

[A] new test, which is called SalivaDirect and was developed by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health, allows ...
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‘We have hit the iceberg’: NCAA doctors say playing college football in the fall is a bad idea

“I mean, I feel like the Titanic,” [Emory School of Medicine’s executive associate dean Carlos] del Rio said on [August ...
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Fewer infants test positive for the coronavirus. Understanding why could help all of us

The initial data suggest that infants make up a small fraction of people who have tested positive for COVID-19. A ...
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As COVID rages, here’s now Notre Dame is bringing in-school instruction back

Hundreds of thousands of students will descend on campuses around the country in coming weeks, beginning their fall terms under ...
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Why SARS disappeared in 2003 while the coronavirus keeps on spreading

The unusual cases of pneumonia began to appear in midwinter, in China. The cause, researchers would later learn, was a ...
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Italy and Israel bet on GM microalgae to develop edible COVID vaccine

The rush to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 has extended to Italy and Israel, where scientists are using the tools ...
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Back to normal by Christmas? By spring? COVID-19 eludes timelines

Many prominent business and political leaders downplayed the pandemic in its early stages. As a result, most business owners and ordinary citizens initially perceived ...
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Do you have the virus? Wearable gadgets might provide clues

For the past three weeks I’ve worn an Oura ring, Fitbit, Garmin fitness band and Apple Watch, along with two ...
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How we are developing a coronavirus vaccine so quickly

Just six months ago, when the death toll from the coronavirus stood at one and neither it nor the disease it caused had ...
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How the anti-GMO movement has merged with COVID conspiracists

The Organic Consumers Association, which promotes the organic industry and is a top funder of the anti-GMO conspiracy website U.S. Right to ...
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Permanent readjustment: Why COVID-19 is here to stay

If there was ever a time when this coronavirus could be contained, it has probably passed. One outcome is now ...
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‘Humans often do dumb things’: ‘Unsettling similarities’ between responses to COVID-19 and the flea-driven 14th century black death

The flea-driven plague, also known as the “Great Mortality,” overran Eurasia and North Africa from 1347 to 1353, killing tens ...