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Black, Latino children at higher risk of COVID-19 hospitalizations, report finds

Black and Latino children are more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 complications than their white counterparts, according to a...

Matthew Allen / August 8, 2020

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Trump mulls executive order on health insurers that already exists under Obamacare

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is planning to present a new executive order that will require health insurance...

Matthew Allen / August 8, 2020

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Fauci requests security for daughters as family gets death threats

Dr. Anthony Fauci says he and his family continue to receive death threats over his public statements about combating the...

Ny Magee / August 6, 2020

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Student, staffer at Indiana schools test positive for COVID-19 as schools reopen

A child and staff member at separate schools in Indiana tested positive for COVID-19 as institutions in the state reopened...

Matthew Allen / August 2, 2020

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U.S. government gives Moderna Inc $472 million for coronavirus vaccine development

Moderna Inc., a biotech company that develops pharmaceuticals, received $472 million award from the federal Biomedical Advanced Research and Development...

Chinekwu Osakwe / July 26, 2020

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US prison populations down 8% amid coronavirus outbreak

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Stephanie Parris was finishing a two-year prison sentence for a probation violation when she heard she’d...

Damini Sharma, Weihua Li, The Marshall Project and Denise Lavoie and Claudia Lauer, Associated Press / July 25, 2020

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Longtime aide to Florida Congressman Buchanan dies of COVID-19

A congressional staffer for Congressman Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) has died of COVID-19. Gary Tibbetts, who was a congressional field representative...

Matthew Allen / July 25, 2020