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Sarah Zhang
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The Coronavirus Is Here Forever. This Is How We Live With It.
Americans can’t avoid the virus for the rest of our lives but we can minimize its impact.
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What If We Never Reach Herd Immunity?
Hitting the threshold might actually be impossible. But vaccines can still help end the pandemic.
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The Next Six Months Will Be Vaccine Purgatory
The period after a vaccine is approved will be strange and confusing, as certain groups of people get vaccinated but others have to wait.
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The Lame-Duck Vaccine
The Trump administration spurred development of a vaccine; the Biden administration has to persuade Americans to take it.
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The Vaccine News That Really Matters
COMMENTARY | Soon Covid-19 vaccine makers will release early data from large clinical trials, and the results could be ambiguous.
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Cities Have Changed—For Rats
Sheltering in place produced a “natural experiment” for urban wildlife.
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Why a Tiny Colorado County Can Offer COVID-19 Tests to Every Resident
There are advantages to having biotech executives as neighbors.
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Deep Clean, Then Clean Again
What exactly does it mean when schools and businesses close to “deep clean” because of the coronavirus?
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A DNA Company Wants You to Help Catch Criminals
Family Tree DNA was criticized for secretly working with the FBI. Now it’s explicitly asking potential customers to help law enforcement.
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Cats Are No Match for New York City’s Rats
Despite popular wisdom, rats are too big and too fierce for cats.
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Digital Government
The Genomic Revolution Reaches the City Crime Lab
How will law enforcement handle the deluge of new information available from DNA?
Infrastructure
What 35 Inches of Rain Can Dredge Up
Hurricane Harvey’s unusual path could hit Houston with rain and storm surges at the same time—surfacing gators, snakes, sewage, and coffins.
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How a Usually Harmless Bacteria Ended Up Killing 18 People in Wisconsin
An outbreak shows the slippery slope between benign and deadly.
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What to Make of the Tunnel Collapse at the Hanford Nuclear Cleanup Site
The incident is only part of the slow-motion deterioration of one of the country's most contaminated places.
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Nevada Fights the Latest Attempt to Give It the Nation’s Nuclear Waste
A Congressional hearing on a bill to revive the Yucca Mountain facility pits Nevadans against everyone else.
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The Government's Weed Is Terrible
… and that’s a big problem for medical marijuana research.
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The White House Revives a Controversial Plan for Nuclear Waste
Yucca Mountain is back, and Nevadans are not happy.
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Patients Are Ditching Opioid Pills for Marijuana
Can marijuana help solve the opioid epidemic?
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Flesh-Eating Worms Reach Florida's Mainland
A massive eradication effort wiped out screwworms in the U.S. 35 years ago—but then they reappeared.
