We're Not Hunting Hard Enough For Variants

We're Not Hunting Hard Enough For Variants

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Can Biden's CDC Rehab Its Reputation?

Rochelle Walensky, the new leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, faces two difficult missions at the same time: Leading the agency’s Covid-19 response and trying to restore the agency’s stature, post-Trump. I talked to John Tozzi reports on the job ahead for W ...  Show more

Some Health Workers Can't Get a Vaccine

Since Pfizer and Moderna vaccine shipments in the U.S. began in mid-December, the priority has been doctors, nurses and other professionals likely to come in contact with the novel coronavirus. But health care workers who aren’t with hospitals and major health systems say they’re ...  Show more

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