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Voting safely: How to protect yourself from Covid-19 while casting your ballot
How Black and Latino children came to be the most affected by the severe complications of Covid-19
Generosity can make us live longer, new research shows. Now, that's more important than ever
Elderly, ill and Black in a pandemic: 'I'm doing everything I can not to get this virus'
The US just topped 6 million coronavirus cases in about 7 months. What happens next is up to you, Birx says
What school gym class looks like in pandemic times
Drinking bans are back in fashion during the Covid pandemic. But experts are wary of Prohibition 2.0
Why recovery is the key to effective exercise: How to reboot your workout routine
This young entrepreneur skipped college to create robotic limbs that users can control with their minds

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(Original Caption) 4/27/1955-New York, NY-A broad search is on by City Health Inspectors for anti-Polio vaccine pakcages from the Cutter Laboratories, Berkeley, CA.This package containing three 1cc vials of the Salk vaccine, was one of several seized by the city's Health Department today.There are some 600 packages still unaccounted for in the Metropolitan area.The U.S. Health Department ordered all cutter-made vaccine impounded follwing the reports of one child dead and seven others ill after inoculation with this firm's product.

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This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

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Screening stations made by Draganfly show a live video feed of people walking nearby and indicate whether they are social distancing. Red circles mark those who are less than 6 feet from another person.

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A woman checks in to cast her ballot during a Democratic presidential primary election at the Kenosha Bible Church gym in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on April 7, 2020. - Americans in Wisconsin began casting ballots Tuesday in a controversial presidential primary held despite a state-wide stay-at-home order and concern that the election could expose thousands of voters and poll workers to the coronavirus. Democratic officials had sought to postpone the election but were overruled by the top state court, and the US Supreme Court stepped in to bar an extension of voting by mail that would have allowed more people to cast ballots without going to polling stations. Both courts have conservative majorities. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Ronda Lamb and her son, Rahsaan Humphrey, 9, who was diagnosed with MIS-C, a rare complication of Covid-19.

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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - AUGUST 14: View of stored plasma donated by patients who recovered from COVID-19 on August 14, 2020 in Bogota, Colombia. A group of researchers from the Institute of Science, Biotechnology and Innovation in Health (IDCBIS) work on a treatment with convalescent plasma to test its effectiveness, which is now 80%, on COVID-19 active patients. Positive coronavirus cases continue to grow rapidly in Colombia, according to the Ministry of Health there are more than 430,000 cases and registers over 14,100 deaths. (Photo by Guillermo Legaria/Getty Images)

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BONN, GERMANY - APRIL 02: In this photo illustration a family has to stay at home because of corona virus on April 02, 2020 in Bonn, Germany. Picture was taken from outside through a window. (Photo by Ute Grabowsky/Photothek via Getty Images)

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Mardell Reed has high blood pressure, anemia, arthritis and thyroid and kidney disease. The 80-year-old says she no longer goes outside because of COVID-19, except under rare occasions. "I'm just afraid of being around people," she says.

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Health care workers use a nasal swab to test a person for COVID-19 at a pop up testing site at the Koinonia Worship Center and Village on July 22, 2020 in Pembroke Park, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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HERRIMAN, UT - AUGUST 13: Cheerleaders of the Herriman Mustangs carry the American Flag at Mustang Stadium on August 13, 2020 in Herriman, Utah. The Mustangs faced the Davis Darts in the first high school football game in the country this season since the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). (Photo by Chris Gardner/Getty Images)

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People line up outside to wait for limited access indoors to order food from Taco Mama, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. More than 20,000 students returned to campus at the University of Alabama for the first time since spring break, with numerous school and city codes in effect to limit the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

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Tape indicating physical distancing guidelines directs an incoming freshman moving into a campus dormitory at Colorado University on August 18, 2020 in Boulder, Colorado. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many colleges and universities are instituting different strategies this fall semester, with most students living on campus attending all classes with remote instruction.

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Respiratory therapist Diana Vega from University Medical Center of Southern Nevada collects coronavirus (COVID-19) tests in specimen sampling tubes during a preview of a new COVID-19 testing site inside Cashman Center on August 3, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. UMC and the Nevada National Guard will operate the site in partnership with the city of Las Vegas beginning tomorrow. This weekend, Nevada passed the 50,000 mark in reported positive COVID-19 cases.

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NEW YORK, USA - APRIL 29: Omar Rodriguez (L) and Joseph Neufeld Jr. (R), work at the funeral home, carry a casket of death of Covid-19 at the Gerard J. Neufeld funeral home in Queens, New York City, United States on April 29, 2020. State of New York, the epicenter of the disease in the country, reported 23,384 deaths and 299,691 cases, followed by New Jersey with 6,771 and 116,365, respectively. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Larry Pierson, from the Isle of Palms, S.C., purchases bottled water from the Harris Teeter grocery store on the Isle of Palms in preparation for Hurricane Florence at the Isle of Palms S.C., Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

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A woman works at a laptop computer on the floor of a bedroom as a child sits alongside reading a book in this arranged photograph taken in Bern, Switzerland, on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. The biggest Wall Street firms are navigating how and when to bring employees safely back to office buildings in global financial hubs, after lockdowns to address the Covid-19 pandemic forced them to do their jobs remotely for months. Photographer: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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A woman undergoes a swab test for coronavirus at a drive-through testing site of the Santa Maria della Pieta hospital in Rome on August 18, 2020. - On August 16, Italy suspended its discos and ordered the mandatory wearing of masks from 6:00pm (1600 GMT) to 6:00am to clamp down on the spread of infection among young people, less than a month before the restart of school. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

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A teacher sprays hand sanitizer on a student's hands following recess at an elementary school in Surprise, Arizona, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Arizona's downward trend of coronavirus cases means parts of the state could meet all three metrics the state's health and education departments set for at least a partial reopening of schools by Labor Day. Schools are not bound by the rules, and some have reopened already, the Associated Press reports.

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