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February 28, 2024
Melody Schreiber
Covid Taught Us a Lot. The CDC Now Wants Us to Forget It.
The agency reportedly plans to tell people with Covid and other infections to isolate based on symptoms. Researchers say symptoms aren’t a good indicator of who’s contagious.
April 2, 2020
Melody Schreiber
The Next Pandemic Could Be Hiding in the Arctic Permafrost
Global warming could unearth ancient microbes. Will we be as unprepared as we were for the coronavirus?
December 15, 1941
Bruce Bliven
In 1941, We Thought We Were on the Cusp of Eradicating All Airborne Diseases

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