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Five years later, COVID-19 is still among us. But the country emerged from that experience weary of the efforts to safeguard people, suspicious of the science and expertise of those who worked to ...

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A new study says the flu A viral strain can adapt shape to stay infectious. Infectious disease doctors break down what this means and how to protect yourself.

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